The irony of Kanfs philosophy of religion

Kant's ultimate inability to show conclusively how an autonomous will gets out of its self-made problem can perhaps be thought of as the final moment in a philosophical vision that begins and ends in irony. The originating irony resides in the fact that, though it is we who impose order on the world and give it form, we do so in a way that leaves the world devoid of any intrinsic value or purpose: we spontaneously fashion a world that has no room for our freedom. Transcendental method discloses that in the course of constituting the world in terms of space, time, and causality, we render the world a spiritual wasteland: at the purely theoretical level, we produce a world with no metaphysical comforts, a world we cannot really live in. Complete theoretical understanding does not produce the good life.