Freedom and the End of Reason

{{Short description|1989 book by Richard Velkley}}

{{Infobox book

| name = Freedom and the End of Reason: On the Moral Foundation of Kant's Critical Philosophy

| author = Richard Velkley

| image = File:Freedom and the End of Reason.jpg

| caption = First edition

| country = United States

| language = English

| subject = Philosophy of Kant

| published = 1989

| publisher = University of Chicago Press

| media_type = Print

| pages = 222 pp.

| isbn = 9780226155173

}}

Freedom and the End of Reason: On the Moral Foundation of Kant's Critical Philosophy is a book by Richard Velkley, in which the author offers an assessment of the position of Kant's philosophy within modern philosophy. Velkley focuses on “critique of practical reason” as the central issue of Kant's thought (not merely the Critique of Practical Reason) and argues that it is a response to the teleological problem of goodness of reason.{{cite journal|last1=O'Neill|first1=Onora| author-link = Onora O'Neill |title=Review of Freedom and the End of Reason|journal=Hegel Bulletin|date=1990|volume=11|issue=1–2|pages=84–88|doi=10.1017/S0263523200004730|s2cid=171725175 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/hegel-bulletin/article/reviewarticle/B9A474BAFFB8FDCF10F1ABE05B2BB3BB|accessdate=4 February 2018|language=en|issn=2051-5367}}{{cite journal|last1=J. C. Powers|first1=Patrick|author-link = Patrick J. C. Powers|title=Kant's Practical Intent Richard L. Velkley: Freedom and the End of Reason: On the Moral Foundations of Kant's Critical Philosophy|journal=The Review of Politics|date=1 June 1991|volume=53|doi=10.1017/S0034670500015370|s2cid=170553496 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248652166|accessdate=4 February 2018}}{{cite journal|last1=Yack|first1=Bernard|author-link = Bernard Yack|title=Review of Freedom and the End of Reason: On the Moral Foundations of Kant's Critical Philosophy|journal=Political Theory|date=1990|volume=18|issue=4|pages=698–701|doi=10.1177/0090591790018004018 |jstor=191555|s2cid=220894675 }}{{cite journal|last1=Ameriks|first1=Karl|author-link =Karl Ameriks|title=Freedom and the End of Reason: On the Moral Foundation of Kant's Critical Philosophy (review)|journal=Journal of the History of Philosophy|date=1991|volume=29|issue=4|pages=684–685|doi=10.1353/hph.1991.0087|s2cid=144394127 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/226251/pdf|accessdate=4 February 2018|language=en|issn=1538-4586}}{{cite journal|last1=Van der Linden|first1=Harry|author-link = Harry Van der Linden|title=Review of Richard L. Velkley, Freedom and the End of Reason|journal=Canadian Philosophical Reviews|date=April 1991|volume=11|url=https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1025&context=facsch_papers|accessdate=4 February 2018}}