It is to be observed, first, that with desire or aversion there is always connected pleasure or pain, the susceptibility for which is called feeling. The capacity of a being to act in conformity with his own representations is what constitutes the life of such a being. The active faculty of the human mind, as the faculty of desire in its widest sense, is the power which man has, through his mental representations, of becoming the cause of objects corresponding to these representations. The Relation of the Faculties of the Human Mind to the Moral Laws. Immanuel Kant (1785) General Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals Introduction to the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant
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