Carolina QuotesFor it is only in the Critique that all the various strands of Kant's thought are woven together into the pattern of his practical philosophy. This pattern, in turn, can be understood only in the entire fabric of the critical philosophy, and that rich design can be clear only to those who have understood each of its three principal parts, which are the three Critiques and not shorter and more popular works like the Prolegomena and the Foundations.
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Lewis White Beck, A Commentary on Kant's Critique of Practical Reason (1961), p. VI Foreword
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- 1961
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