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Click on the phrases to see them in context. The original texts by Immanuel Kant and David Hume are available from the Gutenberg Projet.
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Freedom, in the practical sense, is the independence of the will of coercion by sensuous impulses. If we could reckon with security even upon so little, the conflict of speculative reason regarding the important questions of God, immortality, and freedom, would have been either decided long ago, or would very soon be brought to a conclusion. In like manner, it cannot be doubted that the clear exhibition of duties in opposition to all the claims of inclination, gives rise to the consciousness of freedom, and that the glorious order, beauty, and providential care, everywhere displayed in nature, give rise to the belief in a wise and great Author of the Universe. For it cannot be alleged that, instead of the laws of nature, laws of freedom may be introduced into the causality of the course of nature. The transcendental speculation of reason relates to three things; the freedom of the will, the immortality of the soul, and the existence of God. Exposition of the Cosmological Idea of Freedom in Harmony with the Universal Law of Natural Necessity. Possibility of Freedom in Harmony with the Universal Law of Natural Necessity. For at what precise degree human nature must stop in its progress, and how wide must be the chasm which must necessarily exist between the idea and its realization, are problems which no one can or ought to determine- and for this reason, that it is the destination of freedom to overstep all assigned limits between itself and the idea.