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Quotation from Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant
“He judges, therefore, that he can do a certain thing because he is conscious that he ought, and he recognizes that he is free”
Critique of Practical Reason, Book I, Chapter I, section 6, Remark, trans. Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (1889)
The conclusion of the gallows example, in which a man asked whether he could refuse to bear false witness discovers his freedom.
Citation: "He judges, therefore, that he can do a certain thing because he is conscious that he ought, and he recognizes that he is free" — Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason, Book I, Chapter I, section 6, Remark, trans. Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (1889). (id kant-critique-of-practical-reason-q3)
Portrait: Immanuel Kant - Gemaelde 2, Becker, Public domain.
