When Marx, in the Theses on Feuerbach, says that only idealism up to now has understood the active side of material Praxis,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I could identify for virtually every important figure in the history of modern continental philosophy an idea (or more than one) absolutely… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
It is often difficult to know about one's own era which philosophers in it will be remembered as the most important ones,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Sometimes when a philosopher's views are widely rejected by the world, the fault is not with the philosopher but with the world. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I think that both Mill and Sidgwick are great and admirable philosophers, from whom we still have a lot to learn. I… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
As Kant says, the contribution of any common laborer would be greater than that of the greatest philosopher unless the philosopher makes… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Kant can provide, and has provided, a good model for philosophers to think about the relation of metaphysics to science and scientific… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I think if there were to be a solution to the problem of free will, it would have to be a compatibilist… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
What Smith and Marx have in common is that they were both philosophers of great vision and perceptiveness, deep humanity, and a… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
In my acquaintance with John Rawls, I found him to be a simple and honest man, who just by chance also happened… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
For the utilitarian, there is a fact of the matter about the good (the general happiness, or whatever conception of the good the utilitarian… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share
No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be free) can… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share
Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's Groundwork); second,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share
Some empirical feelings, such as sympathy, are indispensable parts of certain moral virtues. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share
We commit not only theoretical error but also moral wrong in objectifying ourselves or other rational beings, ignoring their capacities for free action and… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share
Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share
That Hegel's theory is derivative from Fichte's does not prevent it from being strikingly original and of independent value. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share
It is sad to witness the persistence in our society of the racism and xenophobia that seems to be a permanent part of our… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share
It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and then turn… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share
We can never prove that we are free or integrate our freedom in any way into our objective conception of the causal order of… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share
Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted to make… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share
My own view is that Kant's conception of the duality of the good (morality and happiness, the good of our person and the good… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share
It is actually a nice question how far Descartes himself endorses the monological and metaphysically dualistic theory of mind associated with his name and… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share
In fact people do not know enough about themselves and what is good for them to form a sufficiently definite conception of the general… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share
Empiricist philosophy always tends to be anti-philosophy (and is often proud of it). — Allen W. Wood Copy Share
