20, origin
• reason has become self-stable, self-reproductive and self-determined by an autotelic principle
- the principle was *at least* latent in reason right from the beginning
- reason (as an end) is justified in itself
∵ here it makes no sense to ask for a further reason, a reason for reason
∴ reason (as an end) can ground other ends
- always it had that potential, at least
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