 As the focus of attention and motivation, Achtung is unique in that it is what Kant calls an intellectual affect (Kant 1788 [2002: 66]). It has no direct relationship to our bodily make up, which, as we know from Levinas, is indissociably tied up with drives and instincts. When thus motivated, practical reason determines itself to act out of respect for a law indemonstrable by theoretical reason, thereby discovering freedom in the performance of its moral act. It is only then, post facto, that freedom is found to have reality, through obedience.