third_thesis.txt
| third_thesis.txt | |
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| Source: | phil_arc |
| Date: | 1784 CE |
| Area: | C3 |
third_thesis.txt is a text document stored in terminal C03 in C3.
Contents
[Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose]
It remains strange that the earlier generations seem to perform their toilsome labour only for the sake of the later ones; to construct for them a step from which they can raise higher the edifice that Nature intended; and only the latest of all generations have the luck to inhabit the edifice that a long line of their ancestors (unintentionally) constructed 45 56 4F 4C 55 54 49 4F 4E 20 54 48 52 4F 55 47 48 20 49 54 45 52 41 54 49 4F 4E 0D 0A 49 54 45 52 41 54 49 4F 4E 20 54 48 52 4F 55 47 48 20 50 4C 41 59 1784CE-F112] [KANT, IMMANUEL]
As puzzling as this may be, it is equally necessary, if one assumes the following: a species of animal possesses Reason, and must develop this capacity to its perfection, being individually mortal, but immortal in the species.
Notes
- As seen in the text, the document quotes the Third Thesis from philosopher Immanuel Kant's Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose.