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Kant was a rational theologian. He did not pretend to be a biblical or revealed theologian.
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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I don't think Kant's theory looks bad to people except insofar as they have misunderstood it (for instance, as heartless and ironheaded, or as committed to an absurd metaphysical conception of freedom that violates Kant's own philosophy).
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Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized.
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Kant does not regard freedom as an item of faith because it is too basic to our agency to be related to any end.
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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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Hegel's theory of recognition is basically derived from Fichte, who is its real author.
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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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It is a cause of shame to any member of the human race to be a member of the same species some of whose members could vote for any candidate for president that has been offered by the Republican party. Such people seem to be motivated only by short-sighted greed, ignorance, fear and hatred.
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It is a culturally interesting (but also deeply depressing) fact that many religious claims seem to retain their emotional power for believers only if taken in ways that are intellectually unsupportable and even morally contemptible.
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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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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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Fichte is a necessary step to both Hegel and Marx.
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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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If being iron headed is to be lacking such feelings, then Kant's position is that an ironheaded person could not be a moral agent because such a person would not be rational.
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Philosophy is about getting the facts right, but it is also about thinking rightly about them. Philosophy is more about the latter than the former.
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We can never prove that we are free or integrate our freedom in any way into our objective conception of the causal order of nature.
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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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Marx's writings still have something to teach us about capitalism. They have little or nothing to teach us about any alternatives to it. Anyone who had read them knows that.
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Kant can provide, and has provided, a good model for philosophers to think about the relation of metaphysics to science and scientific methodology.
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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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Freedom is a permanent problem for us, both unavoidable and insoluble.
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