ABSTRACT
Reason falls into a self-deceiving activity whenever it assumes its ideas as objective statements of existence. The critical screening of what reason cannot achieve turns next into the characterization of the illusory use of reason; but the solution of the paralogisms and antinomies of reason reopens the possibility for metaphysics as something in need of renovation along practical terms. Immanuel Kant discusses extensively the regulative role of freedom as an idea of reason. The metaphysical discussion of freedom is crucial to Kant’s political theory. The regulative role of freedom remains a notion compatible with the causal determinations of nature. The regulative role of freedom remains a notion compatible with the causal determinations of nature. The problematic definition of the nature of provisional rights contributes to the further definition of the role of the world republic as a regulative idea of reason.
