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I think Fichte did take it further than Kant by arguing that we can regard the moral law as objectively valid only by seeing it as addressed to us by another being, even though Fichte thought God could not literally be a person who could address us.

Allen W. Wood

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Allen W. Wood
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 1
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