We may think as we like theoretically, about man's freedom of action, we must practically start from it as the foundation of the moral law, for only under this condition is social morality possible. (Eduard Bernstein)

We may think as we like theoretically, about man's freedom of action, we must practically start from it as the foundation of the moral law, for only under this condition is social morality possible.

Eduard Bernstein

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