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Kant did think he had a moral route back to rational faith in God, for those who need it, and he thought that at some level, we all do need something like it.

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Allen W. Wood
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 1
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The problem is that many who reject Marx do not read him, or read him only by bringing prejudices to their reading that prevent them from understanding him.
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There is a lot in Adam Smith that reflects the insights of Rousseau and anticipates those of Marx.
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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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Teaching and writing about philosophy is about the only thing I've ever been really good at.
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The moral law is simply the way we think our own freedom as self-determination.
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Being aware of truths about what is good or right or about what we ought to do is not the same as deciding what to do. Nor can the former truths be derived from decisions about what to do, or about procedures for making such decisions, unless these procedures themselves rest in some way on the apprehension of truths about what we ought to do.
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Kant thinks we can show that there is no contradiction in supposing we are free.
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As Kant says, the contribution of any common laborer would be greater than that of the greatest philosopher unless the philosopher makes some contribution to establishing the rights of humanity.
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