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Allen W Wood Quotes

Kant does represents a distinctively modern view of the human condition in contrast to that of ancient high culture, found in ancient Greek ethics and also in ancient Chinese ethics Picture Quote #1

It is a culturally interesting (but also deeply depressing) fact that many religious claims seem to retain their emotional power for believers only if taken in ways that are intellectually unsupportable and even morally contemptible Picture Quote #1

What Smith and Marx have in common is that they were both philosophers of great vision and perceptiveness, deep humanity, and a sense of social reality that has been lost in the abstractly formalistic economic theories that have dominated the field since the last third of the nineteenth century Picture Quote #1

Teaching and writing about philosophy is about the only thing I’ve ever been really good at Picture Quote #1

Leaders of nations, and people whose wealth or fame gives them power over the lives of others quite often do more harm than good Picture Quote #1

Philosophy is about getting the facts right, but it is also about thinking rightly about them. Philosophy is more about the latter than the former Picture Quote #1

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We can never prove that we are free or integrate our freedom in any way into our objective conception of the causal order of nature Picture Quote #1

What I most fear now is that within a century or so there may not be any human future at all Picture Quote #1

Since the Enlightenment, popular religion has rejected the Enlightenment path and transformed itself into a bastion of resistance against reason Picture Quote #1

Kant does not regard freedom as an item of faith because it is too basic to our agency to be related to any end Picture Quote #1

I wish that our culture could retain the symbolism and emotional power of traditional religion while combining it with reason and science and using the combination to enhance our humanity rather than impoverishing it by choosing the one side or the other Picture Quote #1

In the mid-1960s, as hard to believe as it may be now, choosing to go into academic philosophy was not an imprudent career choice. There were lots of academic jobs in philosophy then Picture Quote #1

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Fichte would identify all states of our minds with states of our body - perhaps not merely of our brain, but the whole body as an acting organism Picture Quote #1

Surely the world will be a better place, at least marginally, if people have a better understanding of Kant and Hegel, if Marx’s thought its studied and appreciated, if people gain a better understanding of Fichte, whose philosophy is far more important than people realize Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Those who employ their modest talents as best they can do make a contribution to a better human future Picture Quote #1

That Hegel’s theory is derivative from Fichte’s does not prevent it from being strikingly original and of independent value Picture Quote #1

We can make mistakes about what we ought to do, and these are not the same as making bad decisions about what to do Picture Quote #1

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The species of anti-Enlightenment religion we find among evangelical protestants is far more impoverished, anti-intellectual and downright wretched Picture Quote #1

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Kant does represents a distinctively modern view of the human condition in contrast to that of ancient high culture, found in ancient Greek ethics and also in ancient Chinese ethics. (Allen W Wood Quotes) It is a culturally interesting (but also deeply depressing) fact that many religious claims seem to retain their emotional power for believers only if taken in ways that are intellectually unsupportable and even morally contemptible. (Allen W Wood Quotes) What Smith and Marx have in common is that they were both philosophers of great vision and perceptiveness, deep humanity, and a sense of social reality that has been lost in the abstractly formalistic economic theories that have dominated the field since the last third of the nineteenth century. (Allen W Wood Quotes) Teaching and writing about philosophy is about the only thing I’ve ever been really good at (Allen W Wood Quotes) Leaders of nations, and people whose wealth or fame gives them power over the lives of others quite often do more harm than good. (Allen W Wood Quotes) Philosophy is about getting the facts right, but it is also about thinking rightly about them. Philosophy is more about the latter than the former. (Allen W Wood Quotes) We can never prove that we are free or integrate our freedom in any way into our objective conception of the causal order of nature. (Allen W Wood Quotes) What I most fear now is that within a century or so there may not be any human future at all (Allen W Wood Quotes) Since the Enlightenment, popular religion has rejected the Enlightenment path and transformed itself into a bastion of resistance against reason. (Allen W Wood Quotes) Kant does not regard freedom as an item of faith because it is too basic to our agency to be related to any end. (Allen W Wood Quotes) I wish that our culture could retain the symbolism and emotional power of traditional religion while combining it with reason and science and using the combination to enhance our humanity rather than impoverishing it by choosing the one side or the other. (Allen W Wood Quotes) In the mid-1960s, as hard to believe as it may be now, choosing to go into academic philosophy was not an imprudent career choice. There were lots of academic jobs in philosophy then. (Allen W Wood Quotes) Fichte would identify all states of our minds with states of our body - perhaps not merely of our brain, but the whole body as an acting organism. (Allen W Wood Quotes) Surely the world will be a better place, at least marginally, if people have a better understanding of Kant and Hegel, if Marx’s thought its studied and appreciated, if people gain a better understanding of Fichte, whose philosophy is far more important than people realize. (Allen W Wood Quotes) 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. (Allen W Wood Quotes) Those who employ their modest talents as best they can do make a contribution to a better human future. (Allen W Wood Quotes) That Hegel’s theory is derivative from Fichte’s does not prevent it from being strikingly original and of independent value. (Allen W Wood Quotes) We can make mistakes about what we ought to do, and these are not the same as making bad decisions about what to do. (Allen W Wood Quotes) The species of anti-Enlightenment religion we find among evangelical protestants is far more impoverished, anti-intellectual and downright wretched. (Allen W Wood Quotes)