"Da nun jede Einschränkung der Freiheit durch die Willkür eines andern Zwang heißt: so folgt, daß die bürgerliche Verfassung ein Verhältnis freier Menschen ist, die (unbeschadet ihrer Freiheit im Ganzen ihrer Verbindung mit andern) doch unter Zwangsgesetzen stehen: weil die Vernunft selbst es so will, und zwar die reine a priori gesetzgebende Vernunft, die auf keinen empirischen Zweck (dergleichen alle unter dem allgemeinen Namen Glückseligkeit begriffen worden) Rücksicht nimmt; als Menschen gar verschieden denken, so daß ihr Wille unter kein gemeinschaftliches Prinzip, folglich auch unter kein äußeres, mit jedermanns Freiheit zusammenstimmendes, Gesetz gebracht werden kann."
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Immanuel Kant
1724 – 1804
deutscher Philosoph
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