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When Marx, in the Theses on Feuerbach, says that only idealism up to now has understood the active side of material Praxis, what he says is more true of Fichte than of any other philosopher in the classical German tradition.

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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