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Quotation from The Science of Right by Immanuel Kant
“For if Justice and Righteousness perish, human life would no longer have any value in the world”
The Science of Right, Part II, § 49, General Remark E. I. The Right of Punishing, trans. W. Hastie (1887)
Spoken against the 'Pharisaic maxim' that one man should die rather than the whole people perish, after Kant has called the penal law a categorical imperative.
Citation: "For if Justice and Righteousness perish, human life would no longer have any value in the world" — Immanuel Kant, The Science of Right, Part II, § 49, General Remark E. I. The Right of Punishing, trans. W. Hastie (1887). (id kant-science-of-right-q10)
