Kant argues that only from this second (intelligible) standpoint can I regard myself as free, “for to be independent of determination by causes in the sensible world (and this is what reason must always attribute to itself) is to be free.”29
Only morality based on categorical imperatives can be deemed free. Instinctive or conformist morality is as tyrannical as imposed morality. Applying categorical imperatives in a situation is the truest expression of freedom (in the Kantian sense)
