To Fire or Cloud

I watched a man dying on the road today, having hit a telephone pole. I saw twenty faces grim with resolve, and forty eyes as pools of despair, looking as if they could will the pieces of glass whole, will the broken body back to life. Is this unthinking compassion proof of Kant’s Vernunft, his free will, his angelic quality in man? Or were they doing what the world told them to lest they feel as weak and powerless as the poor soul who just went on vacation?

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