Immanuel Kant Quote

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...


Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785)


A metaphysics of morals is therefore indispensably necessary, not merely because of a motive to speculation — for investigating the source of the...

A metaphysics of morals is therefore indispensably necessary, not merely because of a motive to speculation — for investigating the source of the...

A metaphysics of morals is therefore indispensably necessary, not merely because of a motive to speculation — for investigating the source of the...

A metaphysics of morals is therefore indispensably necessary, not merely because of a motive to speculation — for investigating the source of the...