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Quotation from Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant
“we yet comprehend its incomprehensibility, and this is all that can be fairly demanded of a philosophy which strives to carry its principles up to the very limit of human reason”
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Third Section, concluding remark, trans. Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (1889)
The last sentence of the book, admitting that the possibility of pure practical reason cannot itself be explained.
Citation: "we yet comprehend its incomprehensibility, and this is all that can be fairly demanded of a philosophy which strives to carry its principles up to the very limit of human reason" — Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Third Section, concluding remark, trans. Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (1889). (id groundwork-of-the-metaphysics-of-morals-q13)
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