al judgment -- then a certain purity and practicality of reason should follow. Allowing for anthropologic diversions, there is a need to understand where the dividing line between conformity and morality lies:
For if any action is to be morally good, it is not enough that it should conform to the moral law - it must also be done for the sake of the moral law:áwhere this is not so, the conformity is only too contingent and precarious, since the non-moral ground at work will now and then produce actions which accord with the law, but very often actions which transgress it. (Kant, 1956, pp. 57-58).
Kant's understanding of practical reason stems first from an acceptance of ethics as comprised of empirical and a priori knowledge. If this is so, then internally consistent ethical and moral behavior must have a practical nature, as it cannot be anything but human in content. Therefore, in order to be useful and consistent, it must be practical. In Kant's words, one of the reasons for his writing of Groundwork, was "to show the unity of practical and theoretical reason in a common principle, since in the end there can only be one and the s
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