Intentionality is man’s power as a natural being to project ends or purposes, and to seek to accomplish them with the means available to him. Man’s capacity for projection resides in his reason. Through reason, Kant contends man can set before himself objects to be acquired or achieved, whether they be objects of the senses or ideal objects of morality. The use of reason to attain ends Kan terms “life” or the “faculty of desire”. Desire, for Kant, is the faculty of rational being for “causing, through its ideas, the reality of the objects of these ideas.” In one form, desire is simply the will or practical reason itself. Desire represents man’s ability to transcend his given nature by projecting in consciousness his idea of an “ought” that he attempts to materalize through action. Man, therefore, desires what is the current situation he lacks: a good which does not reflect his experience of himself in the universe. Appropriately, he posits this good as an aim yet unfulfilled. ~ Page 49
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Intentionality is man’s power as a natural being to project ends or purposes, and to seek to accomplish them with the means available to him. Man’s capacity for projection resides in his reason. Through reason, Kant contends man can set before himself objects to be acquired or achieved, whether they be objects of the senses or ideal objects of morality. The use of reason to attain ends Kan terms “life” or the “faculty of desire”. Desire, for Kant, is the faculty of rational being for “causing, through its ideas, the reality of the objects of these ideas.” In one form, desire is simply the will or practical reason itself. Desire represents man’s ability to transcend his given nature by projecting in consciousness his idea of an “ought” that he attempts to materalize through action. Man, therefore, desires what is the current situation he lacks: a good which does not reflect his experience of himself in the universe. Appropriately, he posits this good as an aim yet unfulfilled. ~ Page 49