Part Two : Metaphysical Principles of Virtue
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Human freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be compelled to do by another is to adopt a particular end.
— Immanuel Kant
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Source: Wikiquote: "Immanuel Kant" (Quotes, Metaphysics of Morals (1797): Die Metaphysik der Sitten (1797) Translated as Introduction to the Metaphysics of Morals and also in two parts as The Metaphysical Principles of Right and Metaphysical Principles of Virtue)
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