Without absolute standards from a perfect authority, all philosophy becomes vague speculation and self-manufactured duty.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Hayagrīva: This is Fichte. He's not as important as Kant or Hegel, but he followed pretty much in the footsteps of Kant. His first work was entitled Our Belief in a Divine Government of the Universe, and he writes, "Our belief in a moral world order must be based on the concept of a supersensible transcendental world."
Prabhupāda: But thing is that what is morality? If he cannot define what is morality, simply saying on moral principles, what is this morality? First of all you have to understand what is morality. Simply imaginary moral principle. We want practical understanding what is morality. That they have not defined.
Prabhupāda: Everyone will say this is morality. Just like we say following the Vedic scripture [Bg 18.44], we say: ki-go-rakya-vijyam, go-rakya--to give protection to the cows. So according to the scripture we would say it is morality, and somebody will say no, killing a cow in some religious place, mosque or synagogue this is morality. So which one is morality?
Hayagrīva: Well he, following Kant, he emphasized inner reality...
Prabhupāda: He may, he may follow Kant and I may follow Ka, but if there is contradiction then which one is morality? How it will be decided, and who will decide? He may follow somebody. That this question I asked Professor Kotovsky in Moscow that, "You are following Communism, and we are following say, Ka-ism, but your leader is Lenin and our leader is Ka. That so far the philosophy is concerned we have to accept a leader." So there is no difference in the basic principle of philosophy that you must have a leader. Now who shall be the leader and who will decide it? Leader's to both of us, we have got a leader. Now which leader is perfect? If both of them are perfect, then why there is difference of opinion--one leader does not agree with the other leader? So who will answer this question that who is the best leader? Leader you have to follow. That you cannot avoid. Either you follow Kant or you follow Ka. Either you follow Lenin or you follow Ka. Hm. What is the answer? Who is the perfect leader? You cannot avoid leader, either you say according to Kant, I say according to Ka.
Hayagrīva: Well they both emphasize intuition or conscience. The interior...
Prabhupāda: The conscience is prepared. If you go on drinking, then your conscience will say it is good and if you go on chanting your conscience, "This is good." The conscience is prepared according to association. There is no standard conscienceness.