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 | “A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.” ―Immanuel Kant Source/Notes: The Moral Law: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (2012 edition), Routledge - ISBN: 9781136750687 |
| Source/Notes: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785) |
| “All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.” ―Immanuel Kant Source/Notes: Critique of Pure Reason (1781;1787) |
| “All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?” ―Immanuel Kant Source/Notes: Critique of Pure Reason (1781; 1787) |
| “All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.” ―Immanuel Kant Source/Notes: Critique of Pure Reason (1781; 1787) |
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| “But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.” ―Immanuel Kant Source/Notes: Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1896 edition) |
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| “From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.” ―Immanuel Kant Source/Notes: Essays and Treatises on Moral, Political, and Various Philosophical Subjects, Vol. I (1798), p. 421 |
| “He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.” ―Immanuel Kant Source/Notes: Alternative translation in: Lectures on Ethics, Immanuel Kant, Cambridge University Press, 1997, p. 212, "Of Duties to animals and Spirits" - ISBN: 9780521788045 |
| Source/Notes: Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1896 edition) |
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Immanuel Kant
Born: April 22, 1724
Died: February 12, 1804 (aged 79)
Nationality: German
Occupation: Philosopher
Bio: Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher from Königsberg, who researched, lectured, and wrote on philosophy and anthropology during the Enlightenment at the end of the 18th century.
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