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- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Philosophy/Introduction_to_Ethics_(Levin_et_al.)/05%3A_Religion_Law_and_Absolute_Morality/5.03%3A_The_Categorical_Imperative_(Immanuel_Kant)He desires to make this promise, but he has still so much conscience as to ask himself: “Is it not unlawful and inconsistent with duty to get out of a difficulty in this way?” Suppose however that he ...He desires to make this promise, but he has still so much conscience as to ask himself: “Is it not unlawful and inconsistent with duty to get out of a difficulty in this way?” Suppose however that he resolves to do so: then the maxim of his action would be expressed thus: “When I think myself in want of money, I will borrow money and promise to repay it, although I know that I never can do so.” Now this principle of self-love or of one’s own advantage may perhaps be consistent with my whole fut…
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Philosophy/Modern_Philosophy_(Ott_and_Dunn)/Chapters/1.07%3A_Immanuel_Kant_(17241804)They did not recognise that this space in thought makes the physical space, i.e., the extension of matter, itself possible; that the latter is no quality of things in themselves, but only a form of ou...They did not recognise that this space in thought makes the physical space, i.e., the extension of matter, itself possible; that the latter is no quality of things in themselves, but only a form of our sensible faculty of presentation; that all objects in space are mere phenomena, i.e., are not things in themselves, but presentations of our sensuous intuition; and hence that space, as the geometrician thinks it, is exactly the form of sensuous intuition we find a priori in ourselves, containing…
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Literature_and_Literacy/World_Literature/Compact_Anthology_of_World_Literature_-_4_5_and_6_(Turlington_et_al.)/01%3A_The_Seventeenth_and_Eighteenth_Centuries/1.01%3A_Age_of_Reason/1.1.07%3A_Immanuel_Kant_(1724-1804)He further set forth the idea that, even though the existence of God is necessary to the notion of a life after death, human beings must arrive at a universal code of morality without divine revelatio...He further set forth the idea that, even though the existence of God is necessary to the notion of a life after death, human beings must arrive at a universal code of morality without divine revelation. is that human beings must move out of their "self-imposed nonage," or the immaturity of a people who bend to authority for guidance in all areas of their lives, to gain true enlightenment. Note the behavior of the few who throw off the yoke of authority only to become part of the elite class.
