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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.
Allen W. Wood
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Allen W. Wood
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 1
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Allen William Wood
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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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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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That Hegel's theory is derivative from Fichte's does not prevent it from being strikingly original and of independent value.
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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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Not only our moral life, but even our use of theoretical reason - on which we rely in rationally inquiring into nature - presupposes that we are free.
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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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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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Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized.
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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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Empiricist philosophy always tends to be anti-philosophy (and is often proud of it).
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Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect.
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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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