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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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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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Fichte is a necessary step to both Hegel and Marx.
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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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We can establish empirical criteria for free actions, and investigate human actions on the presupposition we are free.
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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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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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Kant takes a free will to be a being or substance with the power to cause a state of the world (or a whole series of such states) spontaneously or from itself.
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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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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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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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It seems to me self-evident that it is worthwhile to understand the best thoughts of the past, to appropriate them, to criticize them.
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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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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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Virtues consist not only of acting in certain ways, but in ways of caring and feeling.
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Popular religion since the time of Kant and Fichte has gone in a direction they tried to prevent and that has been disastrous for the humanity both of believers and of the rest of us. Look at the role of religion in Republican presidential primaries if you need any confirmation of this last statement.
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It is often difficult to know about one's own era which philosophers in it will be remembered as the most important ones, but I think it is already clear that John Rawls is the greatest moral philosopher of the twentieth century.
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We are generally forced to choose one way or the other of distancing ourselves from Kant. I suppose I tend to choose the irreligious way. But I regret that Kant's path has not been followed.
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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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There is a lot in Adam Smith that reflects the insights of Rousseau and anticipates those of Marx.
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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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Reason necessarily expresses itself through emotions and emotions are healthy only insofar as they are expressions of reason.
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