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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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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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Since the Enlightenment, popular religion has rejected the Enlightenment path and transformed itself into a bastion of resistance against reason.
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