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.
Immanuel KantAbout author
- Author's profession: Philosopher
- Nationality: deutsch
- Born: April 22, 1724
- Died: February 12, 1804
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