ABSTRACT
In Immanuel Kant's formulation, the questions were employed to distinguish the spheres of theoretical reason, practical reason, and rational faith. Hope, as Alexis de Tocqueville pointed out, is the common currency of the human being and is closely connected with faith. Protestantism, in revolt against the peculations of a corrupt papacy, took faith to be the condition of salvation rather than the chief access to truth through freedom, thereby creating a dogmatism of its own. And clearly both faith and loyalty place entailments on freedom. Loyalty is the basic positive conviction of politics. But loyalty, unlike faith, is preservative in the profane sphere and subject to its many fluctuations. As for the sacred, which Josiah Royce, with his systematic idealist holism, tended to conflate with the profane within the general rubric of loyalty, it is clear that the term "faith" can function, with judicious substitution, in the Roycean vocabulary.
