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Kant attempted to work out a view of religion and religious belief according to which existing religions could be brought into harmony with modernity, science and reason.
Allen W. Wood
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Allen W. Wood
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 1
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Allen William Wood
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It is both theoretically mistaken and morally wrong to regard others as objects of investigation rather than partners in free rational communication.
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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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What are we to think of the shortsightedness of the great mass of people who are content to do nothing about it, and even worse, the greed or venality of the rich and powerful who deliberately bar the way to human survival?
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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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When Marx, in the Theses on Feuerbach, says that only idealism up to now has understood the active side of material Praxis, what he says is more true of Fichte than of any other philosopher in the classical German tradition.
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We are generally forced to choose one way or the other of distancing ourselves from Kant. I suppose I tend to choose the irreligious way. But I regret that Kant's path has not been followed.
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Freedom is a permanent problem for us, both unavoidable and insoluble.
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In general, those who defend capitalism are basically out of touch with reality.
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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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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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It is probably not a good idea to ask someone to expound a position they do not accept and do not feel they even fully understand.
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We totally misunderstand both his aims and his contribution if we try to read into Marx some anticipation of either the modest successes or the disastrous failures of those who later thought they were acting in his name.
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Kant says that we may regard ourselves as legislator of the moral law, and consider ourselves as its author, but not that we are legislators or authors of the law.
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Those who employ their modest talents as best they can do make a contribution to a better human future.
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Many who are committed to reason and science have turned against religion altogether and treat it with fear and contempt.
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Some empirical feelings, such as sympathy, are indispensable parts of certain moral virtues.
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We can't coherently deny, or even decline to affirm, that we are free.
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Utilitarians are usually empiricists who think they can solve every problem by accumulating enough empirical facts. They do not realize that thinking as well as experience is necessary to know anything or get anything right.
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I think it is clear that what we ought to do has to be independent of our decisions about what to do, and independent of any procedures we might use in making such decisions.
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It would be nice, wouldn't it? if we could get comfortable about the problem of freedom. Kant thinks that we can't.
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