“Animism ascribed to all things of the universe the faculty of action. When experience moved people to drop this belief, it was still assumed that God or nature acts in a way not different from the ways of human action. The emancipation from this anthropomorphism is one of the epistemological foundations of modern natural science.”
–Ludwig von Mises, The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method
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Kant, who in Mises´s arguments “……put rationalistic doctrine upon a new basis…The categories…are the mental equipment of the individual that enables him to think and —-we may add—–to act. (The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science-page 12-), explains ” 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” ( Title: The Critique of Practical Reason. V. The Existence of God as a Postulate of Pure Practical Reason (page 114) The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Critique of Practical Reason, by Immanuel Kant
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