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Capitalism has proven to be a far more terrible system than Marx could ever bring himself to imagine. Those who are so deluded as to find something good in it, or even feel loyalty toward it, are its most pitiful victims.
Allen W. Wood
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Allen W. Wood
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 1
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I think the term Kantian constructivism as an oxymoron. Kant was a constructivist about mathematics, but not about ethics.
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People who enjoy the privileges of success must use these privileges to benefit those who do not have them. These privileges constitute a deep hole they need to climb out of if they are to prevent its being the case that the world would have been better off if they had never been born.
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Kant's system of duties constitutes a Doctrine of Virtue because the duties also indicate what kinds of attitudes, dispositions and feelings are morally virtuous or vicious.
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Empiricist philosophy always tends to be anti-philosophy (and is often proud of it).
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We can establish empirical criteria for free actions, and investigate human actions on the presupposition we are free.
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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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Reason necessarily expresses itself through emotions and emotions are healthy only insofar as they are expressions of 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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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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I do not know how much my own work has achieved, and I must not pretend it has done more than it has.
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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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I think the contribution people make is not proportionate to their fame or success. In fact, I think the relation is often inverse.
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We can't coherently deny, or even decline to affirm, that we are free.
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No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be free) can comprehend human nature.
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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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The problem is that many who reject Marx do not read him, or read him only by bringing prejudices to their reading that prevent them from understanding him.
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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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