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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: 83
Born: 1942
Born: January 1
Academic
Philosopher
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Seattle
Washington
Allen William Wood
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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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Clearly no working class movement ever came about that was able to do what Marx was hoping for.
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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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Those who employ their modest talents as best they can do make a contribution to a better human future.
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Since the Enlightenment, popular religion has rejected the Enlightenment path and transformed itself into a bastion of resistance against reason.
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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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There is a lot in Adam Smith that reflects the insights of Rousseau and anticipates those of Marx.
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My own view is that Kant's conception of the duality of the good (morality and happiness, the good of our person and the good of our state or condition) is a distinctively modern view.
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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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I think that both Mill and Sidgwick are great and admirable philosophers, from whom we still have a lot to learn. I would not favor a form of Kantianism (if there is such a form) that treats Mill's or Sidgwick's moral philosophy with disrespect.
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