[1665] A 666 = B 694.
[1666] A 669 = B 697.
[1667] Cf. above, pp. 446-7.
[1668] Cf. A 681 = B 709.
[1669] Cf. per contra A 663-4 = B 691-2.
[1670] A 670 = B 698.
[1671] I may here guard against misunderstanding. Though the Ideas of Reason condition the experience which they regulate, this must not be taken as nullifying Kant’s fundamental distinction between the regulative and the constitutive. Even when he is developing his less sceptical view, he adopts, in metaphysics as in ethics, a position which is radically distinct from that of Hegel. Though the moral ideal represents reality of the highest order, it transcends all possible realisation of itself in human life. Though it conditions all our morality, it at the same time condemns it. The Christian virtue of humility defines the only attitude proper to the human soul. In an exactly similar manner, the fact that the Ideas of Reason have to be regarded as conditioning the possibility of sense-experience need not prevent us from also recognising that they likewise make possible our consciousness of its limitations.
[1672] Cf. above, pp. 473-7.
[1673] A 679 = B 707.
[1674] A 678 = B 706.