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Quotation from Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant
“Hence also morality is not properly the doctrine how we should make ourselves happy, but how we should become worthy of happiness.”
Critique of Practical Reason, Book II, Chapter II, section V, trans. Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (1889)
After postulating God's existence, Kant explains how religion adds hope of happiness to the moral law without making happiness its motive.
Citation: "Hence also morality is not properly the doctrine how we should make ourselves happy, but how we should become worthy of happiness." — Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason, Book II, Chapter II, section V, trans. Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (1889). (id kant-critique-of-practical-reason-q6)
Portrait: Immanuel Kant - Gemaelde 2, Becker, Public domain.
