 Kant’s idea that reason has “interests,” or even “needs,” may seem strange, and is discussed by Kleingeld 1998a and Ferrarin 2015: Ch. 1. For finite beings, reason is not transparently or infallibly given to consciousness (as some rationalist philosophers seemed to think), just as it cannot deliver transcendent truths. Thus reason “needs to present itself to itself in the process of gaining clarity about its own workings” (Kleingeld 1998a: 97)—above all, the principles that it must give to itself. As the next section discusses, this means that Kant views reason as essentially self-reflexive.