...happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination, resting solely on empirical grounds." - Meaning and context.">
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Ethics (1785), Second Section.

...happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination, resting solely on empirical grounds.

— 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.