Anthropocentrism Quote by Immanuel Kant

““If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.””

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Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided…

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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

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Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.

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Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.

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A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

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When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any

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Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of…

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The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the…

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“Jeg skal alltid handle slik at den regelen jeg handler etter kunne gjelde som allmenn lov.”

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Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to…

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“There is no life without the conditions of life that variably sustain life, and those conditions are pervasively social, establishing not the discrete ontology…

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We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system.…

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“In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the…

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Anthropocentrism is simply irrational. And yet this is the thrust of much of our traditional religious thought and teaching, particularly in the West.

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Anthropocentrism gave rise to boredom, and when anthropomorphism was replaced by technocentrism, boredom became even more profound.

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I have a serious question." "I will give a serious answer." "Can a god be killed?" The humor drained from Roman's face. "Well, that…

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Humanity may destroy the possibilities for life on earth unless the freedom and power that we have acquired are channeled in new creative directions…

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The biggest enemy we face is anthropocentrism. This is that common attitude that everything on this Earth was put here for [human] use.

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“In the discoveries of science the harmony of the spheres is also now the harmony of life. And as the eerie illumination of science…

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“It necessarily follows that chance alone is at the source of every innovation, and of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, absolutely free…

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Anthropocentrism, regarding human kind as the very center and pinnacle of existence, is a disease of arrested development.

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That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our…

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