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"If I have a book that thinks for me, a pastor who acts as my conscience, a physician who prescribes my diet, and so on... then I have no need to exert myself. I have no need to think, if only I can pay; others will take care of that disagreeable business for me."

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About Immanuel Kant

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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