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A metaphysics of morals is therefore indispensably necessary, not merely because of a motive to speculation — for investigating the source of the pra… - Immanuel Kant
" "A metaphysics of morals is therefore indispensably necessary, not merely because of a motive to speculation — for investigating the source of the practical basic principles that lie a priori in our reason — but also because morals themselves remain subject to all sorts of corruption as long as we are without that clue and supreme norm by which to appraise them correctly...
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Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804), born Emanuel Kant, was a German philosopher.
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To know what questions may reasonably be asked is already a great and necessary proof of sagacity and insight. For if a question is absurd in itself and calls for unnecessary answers, it not only brings disgrace to the person raising it, but may prompt an incautious listener to give absurd answers, thus presenting, as the ancients said, the laughable spectacle of one person milking a he-goat, and another holding the sieve underneath.
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