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Immanuel Kant Quotes
«The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
desired, former, latter, objects, practical, shunned
«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?»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
combine, following, interests, practical, speculative, The three
«A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
categorical, categorical imperative, imperative, objectively, reference, represented
«Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
| About:
Arguments
| Keywords:
arguments, detected, detecting, detects, fallacious, mislead, misleading, misleads, out in, set out, syllogistic
«No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law ? i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
| About:
Freedom,
Happiness,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
accord, accordance, compel, conception, e'en, enjoys, everyone else, fit, For each, Happy ending, i.e., infringe, infringing, I E, Others The, pursue, reconciled, reconciles, reconciling, similar, The Happy Ending, welfare, workable
«Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
lighthouse, lighthouses, philosophic, shores, strew, strewed, strewn, strews, The Lighthouse, wreck
«Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
accords, An Age, examination, exempted, exemption, grounds, lay claim, legislation, regarded, sacredness, subjected, The Authority, tribunal
