Dear all,

I am new here and am very delighted to find the forum. I am a student of first grade of philosophy, so I need help to understand things which might be as clear as the Sun for you. Please bear with me. I was reading this text of Kant and I didn't understand it:

"I have, for example, made it my maxim to increase my wealth by any safe means. Now I have a deposit in my hands, the owner of which has died and left no record of it... I therefore apply the maxim to the present case and ask whether it could indeed take the form of a law, and consequently whether I could through my maxim at the same time give such a law as this: that everyone may deny a deposit which no one can prove has been made. I at once become aware that such a principle, as a law, would annihilate itself since it would bring it about that there would be no deposits at all".

Can anyone help me understand this?

Best regards,

Mojtaba