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Quotation from Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant
“the perfect accordance of the will with the moral law is holiness, a perfection of which no rational being of the sensible world is capable at any moment of his existence.”
Critique of Practical Reason, Book II, Chapter II, section IV, trans. Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (1889)
The premise of Kant's argument for the immortality of the soul as a postulate of practical reason.
Citation: "the perfect accordance of the will with the moral law is holiness, a perfection of which no rational being of the sensible world is capable at any moment of his existence." — Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason, Book II, Chapter II, section IV, trans. Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (1889). (id kant-critique-of-practical-reason-q5)
Portrait: Immanuel Kant - Gemaelde 2, Becker, Public domain.
