Immanuel Kant, Lectures on Ethics, trans. Peter Heath, Cambridge University Press, 1997, Part II, p. 213.
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Thus our duties to animals are indirectly duties to humanity.
— Immanuel Kant on Animals
What It Means
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Source: Wikiquote: "Animals" (Quotes: Organized alphabetically by author.)
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