being (at least for Kant) totally within the sphere of practical reason and lacking any possible connection with experience. Naturally, this detachment from the realm of sensible experience cannot be complete. It has, as a minimum necessity, a point which human beings can use as a lever to elevate themselves into the realm of pure duty. To be this it must have an empirical-sensible side while through another aspect it is able wholly to respect the chosen connection which almost identifies practical