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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.

Allen W. Wood

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Allen W. Wood
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 1
Academic
Philosopher
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Seattle
Washington
Allen William Wood
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Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect.
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The relation of the law to the self is only a helpful way of thinking about the law, that helps us better understand its validity for us.
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The moral law is simply the way we think our own freedom as self-determination.
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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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It is probably not a good idea to ask someone to expound a position they do not accept and do not feel they even fully understand.
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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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It is both theoretically mistaken and morally wrong to regard others as objects of investigation rather than partners in free rational communication.
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We usually can't know how, and we probably should not even ask, how our lives contribute to a better world.
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What I most fear now is that within a century or so there may not be any human future at all.
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Kant thinks that a free will is a will under moral laws and that freedom and the moral law are distinct thoughts that reciprocally imply each other. Fichte thinks they are the same thought.
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Some empirical feelings, such as sympathy, are indispensable parts of certain moral virtues.
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In the mid-1960s, as hard to believe as it may be now, choosing to go into academic philosophy was not an imprudent career choice. There were lots of academic jobs in philosophy then.
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I don't think Kant's approach to religion is any longer viable in its original form. But that does not mean it is simply wrong or that we cannot learn from it.
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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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Adam Smith saw the greed of modern capitalism for what it was - a form of destructive ambition that may have favorable effects on the productive capacities of society, but which is of no direct benefit to anyone - not even to the greedy themselves, whose illusory chase after a will-o-the-wisp leaves them morally bankrupt and unhappy.
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Utilitarians are usually empiricists who think they can solve every problem by accumulating enough empirical facts. They do not realize that thinking as well as experience is necessary to know anything or get anything right.
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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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Fichte takes an I or free will to be not a thing or being but an act which is not undetermined but self-determined, in accordance with reasons or norms rationally self-given.
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Fichte is concerned with freedom as non-domination.
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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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