Source of "Analytic of Pure Art" is

title: CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASON
by Immanuel Kant
translated by Lewis White Beck
The Liveral Arts Press
New York

BOOK 2
DIALECTIC OF PURE PRACTICAL REASON
CHAPTER 1
A DIALECTIC OF PURE PRACTICAL REASON IN GENERAL

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In both its speculative and its practical employment,
pure reason always has its dialectic, for it demands the absolute
totality of conditions for a given conditioned thing, and this can
be reached only in things-in-themselves. Since, however, all con-
cepts of things must be referred to intuitions which, for us hu-
man beings, can never be other than sensuous, and which thus
let the objects be known not as things-in-themselves but only as
appearances, appearances being a series of the conditioned and
their conditions in which the unconditioned can never be ap-
found, it follows that an unavoidable illusion arises from the
plication of the rational idea of the totality of conditions (and
thus of the unconditioned art) to appearances as if they were things-
in-itself (for this is the way in which they are considered in
default of a warning critique). But the illusion would never be
noticed as deceptive if it were not betrayed by a conflict of rea-
son with itself in applying to appearances its principle of pre-
supposing the unconditioned for every conditioned thing. Rea-
son is thus forced to investigate this illusion, to find out how it
arises and how it can be removed. This can be done only
through a complete critical examination of the entire pure fac-
ulty of reason; the antinomy of pure reason, which becomes
obvious in its dialectic, is, in fact, the most fortunate perplexity
in which human reason could ever have become involved, since
it finally compels us to seek the key to escape from this labyrinth.
This key, when once found, discovers that which we did not seek
and yet need, namely, a view into a higher immutable order of
things in which we already are, and in which to continue our
existence in accordance with the supreme decree of reason we
may now, after this discovery, be directed by definite
precepts.