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Clearly no working class movement ever came about that was able to do what Marx was hoping for.

Allen W. Wood

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Allen W. Wood
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 1
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Seattle
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Allen William Wood
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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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We commit not only theoretical error but also moral wrong in objectifying ourselves or other rational beings, ignoring their capacities for free action and communicative interaction with us.
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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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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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There is a tradition of modernist theology arising out of post-Kantian thought - Fichte was the real father of it, but Schleiermacher and others also developed it - which might have more promise if it had greater influence on popular religion.
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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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Those who employ their modest talents as best they can do make a contribution to a better human future.
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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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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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Many who are committed to reason and science have turned against religion altogether and treat it with fear and contempt.
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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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In any matter of moral importance, our first task, before we plunge ahead and decide what to do, is to figure out what we ought to do.
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Consequentialist theories begin with a very simple and undoubtedly valid point: Every action aims at a future end, and is seen as a means to it.
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As long as the Republican party exists in its present form, our nation cannot endure as a free society. Still worse, under their policies the human race is being rapidly propelled toward its extinction.
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Kant thinks of judgment as a special faculty or talent of the mind, not reducible to discursive reasoning but cultivated through experience and practice.
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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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