In his Kant on Laws, Eric Watkins presents an account of reason on which the principles of specification and continuity are regulative instructions to search for different kinds of the unconditioned. I suggest that we correct Watkins’ account in two ways. First, we need to complete Watkins’ claim to the plurality of the unconditioned: reason aims for three kinds of the unconditioned, associated with the lowest, next and highest concepts. Second, we need to look beyond reason’s search for the unconditioned in order to properly understand the nature of the aim of reason. I argue that we construe reason’s aim as the systematic unity of cognition considered as a whole or, in Kant’s teleological terms, as the realization of an ‘idea’, or a ‘purposive unity’.

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无条件的调节原则和种类

在他的康德论法律, 埃里克·沃特金斯 (Eric Watkins) 提出了一种理性的解释，在这种理性的基础上，规范和连续性的原则是寻找不同种类的无条件的调节指令。我建议我们以两种方式更正沃特金斯的说法。首先，我们需要完成沃特金斯关于无条件的多元性的主张：理性针对三种无条件的，与最低,下一个和最高概念。其次，我们需要超越理性对无条件的追求，才能正确理解理性目标的本质。我认为，我们将理性的目标解释为被视为一个整体的认知的系统统一，或者用康德的目的论术语，理解为“观念”或“有目的的统一”的实现。