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Quotation from The Science of Right by Immanuel Kant
“it is quite a correct and even a necessary Idea to regard the act of generation as a process by which a Person is brought without his consent into the world, and placed in it by the responsible free will of others”
The Science of Right, Part I, § 28, trans. W. Hastie (1887)
From this Kant derives parents' duty to care for and educate their children and denies that parents may treat a child as a thing of their own making.
Citation: "it is quite a correct and even a necessary Idea to regard the act of generation as a process by which a Person is brought without his consent into the world, and placed in it by the responsible free will of others" — Immanuel Kant, The Science of Right, Part I, § 28, trans. W. Hastie (1887). (id kant-science-of-right-q6)
