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Virtues consist not only of acting in certain ways, but in ways of caring and feeling.
Allen W. Wood
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Allen W. Wood
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 1
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Seattle
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Allen William Wood
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Fichte is a necessary step to both Hegel and Marx.
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Not only our moral life, but even our use of theoretical reason - on which we rely in rationally inquiring into nature - presupposes that we are free.
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One rational standard of action is how well it promotes the end it seeks. Another standard is whether it aims at ends which are good. Both of these, but especially the former, depend on judgments of fact.
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The relation of the law to the self is only a helpful way of thinking about the law, that helps us better understand its validity for us.
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Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized.
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Sometimes when a philosopher's views are widely rejected by the world, the fault is not with the philosopher but with the world.
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Kant considers belief in God and immortality to be items of faith because he relates faith to the pursuit of ends - in this case, the highest good.
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We can't coherently deny, or even decline to affirm, that we are free.
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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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What is central to morality is rational self-constraint (acting from duty), in cease where there is no other incentive to do your duty except that the moral law commands it.
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No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be free) can comprehend human nature.
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I think the contribution people make is not proportionate to their fame or success. In fact, I think the relation is often inverse.
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When consequentialist theories are developed in terms of an equally shallow psychology of the good - such as a crude form of hedonism - the results can sometimes strike sensible people as revolting and inhuman. People can be reduced to simple repositories of positive or negative sensory states, and their humanity is lost sight of entirely.
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Kant is not saying - about freedom or any other subject - anything of the form: Not-p but we must assume that p. That's close to self-contradictory, like Moore's paradox: p, but I don't believe that p.
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It seems to me self-evident that it is worthwhile to understand the best thoughts of the past, to appropriate them, to criticize them.
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People who enjoy the privileges of success must use these privileges to benefit those who do not have them. These privileges constitute a deep hole they need to climb out of if they are to prevent its being the case that the world would have been better off if they had never been born.
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Clearly no working class movement ever came about that was able to do what Marx was hoping for.
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In general, those who defend capitalism are basically out of touch with reality.
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I could identify for virtually every important figure in the history of modern continental philosophy an idea (or more than one) absolutely central to that philosopher's thought, whose original author was Fichte.
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In the mid-1960s, as hard to believe as it may be now, choosing to go into academic philosophy was not an imprudent career choice. There were lots of academic jobs in philosophy then.
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