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Duty is the necessity of acting out of respect for the law
Drawn from what Immanuel Kant said
What Immanuel Kant actually said
- Immanuel Kant German philosopher (1724 to 1804), born in Königsberg
The third proposition, which is a consequence of the two preceding, I would express thus: Duty is the necessity of acting from respect for the law.
Where this was said
↗Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals (tr. Thomas Kingsmill Abbott, 1873)gutenberg.org
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