Considering this, it is only safe to assume that freedom, as Kant sees it, is limited to performing acts that act in accordance with reason. Unlimited freedom would mean that one would act against reason and against his or her purpose as a typical human being that is expected to contribute to the well-being of society. If what Kant thinks is actually true it means that people are unable to act in accordance with their personal convictions and that they are merely a part of a greater mechanism. Being a person would be nothing more than just a dream, considering that one could not actually exercise his or...

her free will and that basically everything that he or she would do would be a result of them taking on their roles as members of an automated world.
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Gardner, Sebastian, Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason (London: Routledge, 1999)

"Immanuel Kant: Metaphysics," Retrieved May 11, 2011, from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Website: http://www.iep.utm.edu/kantmeta/#SH8a

"Kant," Retrieved May 11, 2011, from the John Carroll University Website: http://www.jcu.edu/philosophy/gensler/ms/kant -- 00.htm