Doe Quotes by Allen W. Wood

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I don't think Kant's approach to religion is any longer viable in its original form. But that does not mean it is…

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Kant does not regard freedom as an item of faith because it is too basic to our agency to be related to…

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That Hegel's theory is derivative from Fichte's does not prevent it from being strikingly original and of independent value.

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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…

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Kant's description of most ethical duties reads more like a description of moral virtues and vices. Once we see this, we see…

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I think if there were to be a solution to the problem of free will, it would have to be a compatibilist…

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It is actually a nice question how far Descartes himself endorses the monological and metaphysically dualistic theory of mind associated with his…

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Kant does not think that the silly commandment "universalize your maxims" is the be-all and end-all of ethics or that it provides…

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Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's…

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Kant does not think there is anything wrong with being beneficent from sympathy. He thinks we have a duty to cultivate sympathetic…

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Kant does not think that along with choice of an action we also choose in each case the motive from which we…

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For the utilitarian, there is a fact of the matter about the good (the general happiness, or whatever conception of the good the utilitarian…

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No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be free) can…

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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,…

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Some empirical feelings, such as sympathy, are indispensable parts of certain moral virtues.

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We commit not only theoretical error but also moral wrong in objectifying ourselves or other rational beings, ignoring their capacities for free action and…

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Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized.

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That Hegel's theory is derivative from Fichte's does not prevent it from being strikingly original and of independent value.

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It is sad to witness the persistence in our society of the racism and xenophobia that seems to be a permanent part of our…

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It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and then turn…

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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…

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Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted to make…

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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…

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It is actually a nice question how far Descartes himself endorses the monological and metaphysically dualistic theory of mind associated with his name and…

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