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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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These unavoidable problems of mere pure reason are God, freedom (of will), and immortality. For, if freedom were determined according to laws, it would be no longer freedom, but merely nature. Freedom, in the practical sense, is the independence of the will of coercion by sensuous impulses. The question, therefore, is; "Whether an effect, determined according to the laws of nature, can at the same time be produced by a free agent, or whether freedom and nature mutually exclude each other?" And here, the common but fallacious hypothesis of the absolute reality of phenomena manifests its injurious influence in embarrassing the procedure of reason. Phero-mones: Nature's secret attractant! By confining the view to particular passages, taking these out of their connection and comparing them with one another, it is easy to pick out apparent contradictions, especially in a work written with any freedom of style.