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I think the term Kantian constructivism as an oxymoron. Kant was a constructivist about mathematics, but not about ethics.

Allen W. Wood

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Allen W. Wood
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 1
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Philosopher
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Seattle
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Allen William Wood
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Popular religion since the time of Kant and Fichte has gone in a direction they tried to prevent and that has been disastrous for the humanity both of believers and of the rest of us. Look at the role of religion in Republican presidential primaries if you need any confirmation of this last statement.
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Karl Marx left it to others to find the way beyond capitalism to a higher form of society. He saw his role as giving them as accurate a theory as he could of how capitalism works, which would also show them the reasons why it needs to be abolished and replaced by a freer and more human form of society.
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It was an important part of Mendelssohn's philosophical and religious view that the traditional rationalist proofs for God's existence should be sound an convincing. Kant thought they were not. So Kant's critique was world-shaking for Mendelssohn.
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We commit not only theoretical error but also moral wrong in objectifying ourselves or other rational beings, ignoring their capacities for free action and communicative interaction with us.
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Virtues consist not only of acting in certain ways, but in ways of caring and feeling.
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Leaders of nations, and people whose wealth or fame gives them power over the lives of others quite often do more harm than good.
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Kant thinks we can show that there is no contradiction in supposing we are free.
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Not only in order to act morally, but even to formulate theoretical questions, devise experiments, choose which ones to perform and what conclusions to draw from then - we must presuppose that we are free. That's the sense in which it is true that for Kant we must assume we are free.
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Kant does represents a distinctively modern view of the human condition in contrast to that of ancient high culture, found in ancient Greek ethics and also in ancient Chinese ethics.
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Reason necessarily expresses itself through emotions and emotions are healthy only insofar as they are expressions of reason.
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Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized.
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We can never prove that we are free or integrate our freedom in any way into our objective conception of the causal order of nature.
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