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KANT expounds in his “ The Critique of Practical Reason”
That in the order of ends, man (and with him every rational being) is an end in himself, that is, that he can never be used merely as a means by any (not even by God) without being at the same time an end also himself, that therefore humanity in our person must be holy to ourselves, this follows now of itself because he is the subject of the moral law, in other words, of that which is holy in itself, and on account of which and in agreement with which alone can anything be termed holy. For this moral law is founded on the autonomy of his will, as a free will which by its universal laws must necessarily be able to agree with that to which it is to submit itself.(1)
Professor L. v. MISES in his “The Ultimate Foundatios of Economic Science” presented us
Kant, awakened by
Hume from his “dogmatic slumbers,” put the rationalistic doctrine
upon a new basis. Experience, he taught, provides only the
raw material out of which the mind forms what is called knowledge.
All knowledge is conditioned by the categories that precede
any data of experience both in time and in logic. The categories
are a priori; they are the mental equipment of the individual that
enables him to think and—we may add—to act. As all reasoning
presupposes the a priori categories, it is vain to embark upon
attempts to prove or to disprove them.( page 12)
(1) “The Critique of Practical Reason” ( The Project Gutenberg EBook). Book 2 Chapter 2 point V The Existence of God as a Postulate of Pure Pactical Reason paragraph 55 last lines.
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