Philosophy is about getting the facts right, but it is also about thinking rightly about them. Philosophy is more about the latter… — Allen W. Wood Facts Copy Share Image
It would be nice, wouldn't it? if we could get comfortable about the problem of freedom. Kant thinks that we can't. — Allen W. Wood Being nice Copy Share Image
Many who are committed to reason and science have turned against religion altogether and treat it with fear and contempt. — Allen W. Wood Against religion Copy Share Image
I do not know how much my own work has achieved, and I must not pretend it has done more than it… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
We can never prove that we are free or integrate our freedom in any way into our objective conception of the causal… — Allen W. Wood Conception Copy Share Image
Kant thinks that a free will is a will under moral laws and that freedom and the moral law are distinct thoughts… — Allen W. Wood Free will Copy Share Image
Adam Smith was aware of the way that economic interests could have a distorting and destructive effect both on the market and… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The relation of the law to the self is only a helpful way of thinking about the law, that helps us better… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Karl Marx left it to others to find the way beyond capitalism to a higher form of society. He saw his role… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I am a one-trick pony. But I have worked hard at something I would have liked to do even if I weren't… — Allen W. Wood Good living Copy Share Image
Kant does not think that the silly commandment "universalize your maxims" is the be-all and end-all of ethics or that it provides… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Surely the world will be a better place, at least marginally, if people have a better understanding of Kant and Hegel, if… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Since we cannot know too much about the long term effects of our particular lives, and since success and fame are not… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The picture of Kant as the 'theological Robespierre' or the "world-crusher" was first suggested by someone with whom Kant stood in a… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
It is a cause of shame to any member of the human race to be a member of the same species some… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Kant has been famous for his rejection of eudaimonism, but I think Kantian ethics has a great deal in common with Aristotle,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Both Kant and Fichte thought of traditions of revealed religion as ways of symbolically (that is, with aesthetic emotional power) thinking about… — Allen W. Wood Aesthetic Copy Share Image
Kant's aim was to develop a religion within the boundaries of mere reason (that is, reason unaided by special empirical revelation) and… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
There is a very common, though also very silly, picture of Kant according to which as empirical beings we are not free… — Allen W. Wood Choices Copy Share Image
When people think that moral problems can be solved by some simple strategy of calculation, that sets them up for ghastly overreaching.… — Allen W. Wood Ability Copy Share Image
In my view, there was a long period in which analytical philosophy had little to say about ethics. I think their intellectual… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Our decisions need not be seen as resting on procedures that are merely instrumental in making judgments that are reliably truth-tracking. The… — Allen W. Wood Action Copy Share Image
Kant considers belief in God and immortality to be items of "faith" because he relates faith to the pursuit of ends -… — Allen W. Wood Belief Copy Share Image
I think the term "Kantian constructivism" as an oxymoron. Kant was a constructivist about mathematics, but not about ethics. — Allen W. Wood Constructivism Copy Share Image
Those who employ their modest talents as best they can do make a contribution to a better human future. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I don't think Kant's approach to religion is any longer viable in its original form. But that does not mean it is… — Allen W. Wood Approach 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
It is both theoretically mistaken and morally wrong to regard others as objects of investigation rather than partners in free rational communication. — Allen W. Wood Communication Copy Share Image
I think the contribution people make is not proportionate to their fame or success. In fact, I think the relation is often… — Allen W. Wood Contribution Copy Share Image
Kant says that we may regard ourselves as legislator of the moral law, and consider ourselves as its author, but not that… — Allen W. Wood Books Copy Share Image
We commit not only theoretical error but also moral wrong in objectifying ourselves or other rational beings, ignoring their capacities for free… — Allen W. Wood Action Copy Share Image
Not only our moral life, but even our use of theoretical reason - on which we rely in rationally inquiring into nature… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Fichte would identify all states of our minds with states of our body - perhaps not merely of our brain, but the… — Allen W. Wood Acting Copy Share Image
We can treat human responses to cognitions as involving law-like connections grounded on free choices which show themselves in our character. — Allen W. Wood Character Copy Share Image
I think it is clear that what we ought to do has to be independent of our decisions about what to do,… — 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
The problem is that many who reject Marx do not read him, or read him only by bringing prejudices to their reading… — Allen W. Wood Prejudice Copy Share Image
What is central to morality is rational self-constraint (acting from duty), in cease where there is no other incentive to do your… — Allen W. Wood Acting Copy Share Image
We can establish empirical criteria for free actions, and investigate human actions on the presupposition we are free. — Allen W. Wood Action Copy Share Image
