While the two schools tried to excogitate the sameness of the practical principles of virtue and happiness, they did not on that account agree with each other as to how they were to force out this identity; rather, they separated to an infinite distance from each other inasmuch as the one posited the principle thereof on the aesthet side and the other on the logical side, the former in the consciousness of sensible need, the other in the independence of practical reason from all sensible determining bases.