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B 832-833 Chapter IV. The History of Pure Reason (4. Hauptstück. Die Geschichte der reinen Vernunft.)(A 852, B880)

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

— Immanuel Kant

What It Means

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Immanuel Kant

About Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804), born Emanuel Kant, was a German philosopher.