note.) we can only determine by imagination, which is not so powerfully affected by the future as by the present. Hence such true knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.
hortik dator, ongiaz eta gaizkiaz dugun egiazko ezagutza abstraktua edo orokorra baizik ez izatea, eta, hortik dator ere, guretzat orain zer den ona edo zer den txarra determinatu ahal izateko, gauzen ordenaz eta kausen lokarriaz egiten dugun judizioa, egiazkoa baino seguruago, irudimenezkoa izatea.