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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.

Allen W. Wood

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Allen W. Wood
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 1
Academic
Philosopher
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Seattle
Washington
Allen William Wood
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Fichte takes an I or free will to be not a thing or being but an act which is not undetermined but self-determined, in accordance with reasons or norms rationally self-given.
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Hegel's theory of recognition is basically derived from Fichte, who is its real author.
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We can make mistakes about what we ought to do, and these are not the same as making bad decisions about what to do.
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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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Consequentialist theories begin with a very simple and undoubtedly valid point: Every action aims at a future end, and is seen as a means to it.
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Notice that tearing oneself out of the insensible state is the opposite of remaining in it the man who is beneficent from duty nevertheless acts with feelings, if not with empirical inclinations.
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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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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.
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Freedom is an unprovable but unavoidable presupposition, not an article of faith.
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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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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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Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect.
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The moral law is simply the way we think our own freedom as self-determination.
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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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Capitalism has not proven to be a transitional form, a gateway to a higher human future.
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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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The species of anti-Enlightenment religion we find among evangelical protestants is far more impoverished, anti-intellectual and downright wretched.
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I think Fichte did take it further than Kant by arguing that we can regard the moral law as objectively valid only by seeing it as addressed to us by another being, even though Fichte thought God could not literally be a person who could address us.
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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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Fichte would identify all states of our minds with states of our body - perhaps not merely of our brain, but the whole body as an acting organism.
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