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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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Allen W. Wood
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 1
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Freedom is a permanent problem for us, both unavoidable and insoluble.
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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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Karl Marx left it to others to find the way beyond capitalism to a higher form of society. He saw his role as giving them as accurate a theory as he could of how capitalism works, which would also show them the reasons why it needs to be abolished and replaced by a freer and more human form of society.
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Kant has been famous for his rejection of eudaimonism, but I think Kantian ethics has a great deal in common with Aristotle, and some things in common with Stoicism as well. The traditions tend, I believe, to talk past each other when it comes to happiness or eudaimonia.
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Fichte thinks that the mutual recognition of one another as free beings belongs among the transcendental conditions of self-consciousness itself.
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Adam Smith was aware of the way that economic interests could have a distorting and destructive effect both on the market and on politics.
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People are often most proud of precisely those things of which they should most be ashamed.
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