First Thesis
• Variant translations:
• All natural capacities of a creature are destined sooner or later to be developed completely and in conformity with their end.
• All natural capacities of a creature are destined to develop themselves completely and to their purpose.
• Variant translations:
• All natural capacities of a creature are destined sooner or later to be developed completely and in conformity with their end.
• All natural capacities of a creature are destined to develop themselves completely and to their purpose.
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All natural capacities of a creature are destined to evolve completely to their natural end.
— Immanuel Kant
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "All natural capacities of a creature are destined to evolve completely to their natural end." in the context of "First Thesis
• Variant translations:
• All natural capacities of a creature are destined sooner or later to be developed completely and in conformity with their end.
• All natural capacities of a creature are destined to develop themselves completely and to their purpose." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Immanuel Kant" (Quotes, Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View (1784): Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View (1784) as translated in ''''On History (1963) by Lewis White Beck; also translated as Idea for a General History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose'')
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