"As nature has uncovered from under this hard shell the seed for which she most tenderly cares - the propensity and vocation to free thinking - this gradually works back upon the character of the people, who thereby gradually become capable of managing freedom; finally, it affects the principles of government, which finds it to its advantage to treat men, who are now more than machines, in accordance with their dignity."

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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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