Third Thesis
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Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he should partake of no other happiness or perfection than that which he himself, independently of instinct, has created by his own reason.
— Immanuel Kant
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he should partake of no other happiness or perfection than that which he himself, independently of instinct, has created by his own reason." in the context of "Third Thesis" 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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