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The Critique of Pure Reason is approved around several basic distinctions. Kant then shows the application of the categories to experience, sets out arguments for the relation of the categories to metaphysical principles, describes how the imagination can apply pure concepts to the object given in sense perception, arguments relating the a priori, traditional theories of the soul, the universe as a whole, and the existence of God, compares mathematical and logical methods of proof, and the second section,Canon of Pure Reason, distinguishes theoretical from practical reason. However in the Critique of Pure Reason Kant defines the Enlightenment as man leaving his self-caused immaturity. The immaturity was the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Kant believed the Enlightenment was when men became courageous enough to use their own intelligence. __ Kant's Critique of Pure Reason __. 5 Apr. 2002. User. 19 Apr. 2009 .

Immanuel Kant, "What is Enlightenment?" in The Philosophy of Kant, Carl J. Friedrich, ed. Reprinted by Permission of Random House, inc. (New York, 1949), pp.132-134, 138-139 Copyright 1949 by Random House, inc.