"It must be freely admitted that there is a sort of circle here from which it seems impossible to escape. In the order of efficient causes we assume ourselves free, in order that in the order of ends we may conceive ourselves as subject to these laws because we have attributed to ourselves freedom of will; for freedom and self-legislation of will are both autonomy..."

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Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher of the Enlightenment whose work transformed modern epistemology, ethics, and metaphysics. He is best known for the Critique of Pure Reason and for his formulation of the categorical imperative.

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