All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope? (B 832-833)
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Human reason focuses on three core questions about knowledge, action, and hope.
- In plain terms
- Reason asks what we can know, do, and hope for.
- What can you take from it?
- Focus on knowing doing and hoping.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What can you know?
- What should you do?
Another view
Other questions might be equally important to people.
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