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Quotation from The Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant
“Consequently, we must assume a moral World-Cause (an Author of the world), in order to set before ourselves a final purpose consistently with the moral law”
The Critique of Judgement, Part II, Methodology, § 87, trans. J. H. Bernard (1914)
The conclusion of the moral proof of God's existence, which Kant immediately limits to practical rather than theoretical validity.
Citation: "Consequently, we must assume a moral World-Cause (an Author of the world), in order to set before ourselves a final purpose consistently with the moral law" — Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Judgement, Part II, Methodology, § 87, trans. J. H. Bernard (1914). (id kant-critique-of-judgement-q15)
