Even though we have lost yardsticks by which to measure, and rules under which to subsume the particular, a being whose essence is a beginning may have enough of origin within himself to understand without preconceived categories and to judge without the set of customary rules which is morality. β¨ Hannah Arendt, Ronald Beiner (1989). Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy, p.96, University of Chicago Press
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