 There are two noteworthy themes implicit in Kant’s criticism of metaphysics. First, Kant offers an account and critique of the ideas of reason specific to each discipline. In relation to this, the general theory of reason plays a role in Kant’s efforts to argue against the “hypostatization” of each of the ideas. More specifically, Kant’s criticism of the metaphysical disciplines centers on his efforts to show that the ideas of reason (the soul, the world and God), which are thought in accordance with the demand for an unconditioned that could unify the relevant domain of conditions, get erroneously “hypostatized” by reason, or thought as mind-independent “objects” about which we might seek knowledge. In the same way, that is, that the prescription to seek the unconditioned appears to reason as an objective principle, so too, the subjective ideas appear to reason as objects existing in a mind-independent way. Kant’s aim is to secure the subjective ideas while enforcing their subjective status, and thereby defusing the metaphysics that attends to them.