Ethics

The State of Nature has a Law of Nature to govern it, which obliges every one: And Reason, which is that Law, teaches all Mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his Life, Health, Liberty, or Possessions.

John Locke, The Second Treatise of Civil Government, §6


 

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them:

the starry heavens above me
and the moral law within me.

Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason
(Kritik der praktischen Vernunft) [A 289, Lewis White Beck trans.]


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Zwei Dinge erfüllen das Gemüt mit immer neuer and zunehmenden Bewunderung und Ehrfurcht, je öfter und anhaltender sich das Nachdenken damit beschäftigt:

Der bestirnte Himmel über mir,
und das moralische Gesetz in mir.

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