Reason, Totality and Freedom in Kant

One misunderstands Kant’s ethical approach when one requires him to show the ‘origin’ of his moral values in human consciousness. They are not ‘found’ strictly speaking. They do not hide anywhere waiting to be discovered, but they are postulated, and through this postulation, they make intelligible morality as a specific domain of human existence and not as a tradition-based set of behaviors that are applied automatically as psychological reflexes.