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Hegel's theory of recognition is basically derived from Fichte, who is its real author.
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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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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Many who are committed to reason and science have turned against religion altogether and treat it with fear and contempt.
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Freedom is a permanent problem for us, both unavoidable and insoluble.
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Virtues consist not only of acting in certain ways, but in ways of caring and feeling.
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