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{{short description|1788 book by Immanuel Kant}}
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{{Infobox book
| name = ''Critique of Practical Reason''
| title_orig = Critik&thinsp;{{noitalic|{{sup|a}}}} der practischen Vernunft
| translator = [[Thomas Kingsmill Abbott]]
| image = File:Critique of Practical Reason (German edition).jpg
| caption = 1788 German edition
| author  = [[Immanuel Kant]]
| country = 
| language = German
| subject  = [[Ethics|Moral philosophy]]
| published  = 1788
| media_type = Print
| pages       = 
| isbn= |oclc =
| preceded_by = [[Critique of Pure Reason]]
| followed_by = [[Critique of Judgment]]
| notes       = {{sup|a}} ''Kritik'' in [[modern German]].
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The '''''Critique of Practical Reason''''' ({{langx|de|Kritik der praktischen Vernunft}}) is the second of [[Immanuel Kant]]'s three critiques, published in 1788. Hence, it is sometimes referred to as the "second critique". It follows on from Kant's first critique, the ''[[Critique of Pure Reason]]'', and is one of his major works on [[Kantian ethics|moral philosophy]]. While Kant had already published one significant work in moral philosophy, the ''[[Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals]]'' (1785), the ''Critique of Practical Reason'' was intended to develop his account of the will as determinable by (or able to act from) the moral law alone, place his ethical views within the larger framework of his system of critical philosophy, and expand on certain themes in his moral philosophy such as the feeling of respect for the moral law and the concept of the highest good.