ABSTRACT
The account given by Kant implies that science and the arts alike are valuable, and that both contribute to a morally improving culture. Theoretical science contributes to a culture of skill, making the satisfaction of human desires more efficient, and therefore helping us to become happy. Practical science—the system of morality— contributes to a culture of discipline. It tells us what ends we ought to pursue and also which of our policies of action are consistent with those ends. Trying to live by this science is what makes us worthy to be happy. As for the arts, they increase our pleasure, and the best of them do so by exercising faculties that we need for fulfilling the requirements of morality.
