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We can establish empirical criteria for free actions, and investigate human actions on the presupposition we are free.

Allen W. Wood

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Allen W. Wood
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 1
Academic
Philosopher
Professor
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Seattle
Washington
Allen William Wood
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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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Capitalism has not proven to be a transitional form, a gateway to a higher human future.
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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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There is a lot in Adam Smith that reflects the insights of Rousseau and anticipates those of Marx.
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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 don't think Kant's approach to religion is any longer viable in its original form. But that does not mean it is simply wrong or that we cannot learn from it.
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Virtues consist not only of acting in certain ways, but in ways of caring and feeling.
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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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Fichte is a necessary step to both Hegel and Marx.
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Empiricist philosophy always tends to be anti-philosophy (and is often proud of it).
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Our procedures of deliberation are not ways of finding out independent moral truths but instead ways of constructing these truths, in the process of deciding what to do.
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I wish that our culture could retain the symbolism and emotional power of traditional religion while combining it with reason and science and using the combination to enhance our humanity rather than impoverishing it by choosing the one side or the other.
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For the utilitarian, there is a fact of the matter about the good (the general happiness, or whatever conception of the good the utilitarian adopts) and about which actions or moral rules would contribute to maximizing the good. For the rational intuitionist, there are truths about which actions should be done and not done.
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Fichte is concerned with freedom as non-domination.
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The picture of Kant as the 'theological Robespierre' or the world-crusher was first suggested by someone with whom Kant stood in a relation of philosophical disagreement but also great mutual respect: namely, Moses Mendelssohn.
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