The function of these ideas is simply and solely regulative.

这些观念功能仅仅是简单、调节作用。

Thus, the idea of God has importance in Kant's philosophy, as do other regulative ideas.

因此，上帝观念在康德哲学中很重要，其他规范性观念也是如此。

As regulative ideas they give us a reasonable way of dealing with the constantly recurring questions raised by metaphysics.

作规范性思想，它们我们提供了种合理方法来处理形而上学不断提出反复出现问题。

In this context the concept of freedom, as the idea of the self, or God, is a regulative idea.

在这种，自由概念，作自我或上帝概念，是个规范性概念。

Thus, the second regulative idea of merely speculative reason is the concept of the world in general.

因此，纯粹思辨理性第二个规范性概念是般世界概念。

Kant's use of these regulative ideas exemplifies his way of mediating between dogmatic rationalism and skeptical empiricism.

康德对这些规范性思想使用体现了他在教条理性主义和怀疑经验主义之间进行调解方式。

As regulative ideas, the concepts of the self, the world, and God have a legitimate function, for they help us to synthesize our experience.

作规范性观念，自我、世界和上帝概念具有合法功能，因它们帮助我们综合我们体验。

Like the writer, the speaker proceeds with some overarching and regulative purpose or intention that controls the substance and style of what is being presented.

与作者样，演讲者也有些总体性和规范性目或意图，控制着所呈现内容实质和风格。

The cosmological argument cannot, therefore, securely lead us to a first cause of all things, for the most we can infer from our experience of things is a regulative idea of God.

因此，宇宙论证不能安全地将我们引向万物首要原因，因我们从对事物经验中最多只能推断出上帝规范性观念。