Facts Quotes by Allen W. Wood

11 Facts quotes by Allen W. Wood

Allen W. Wood’s facts are concise yet thoughtful, reflecting his philosophical background. In eleven short notes he invites readers to pause and consider the underlying nuances of seemingly simple statements.

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It is a culturally interesting (but also deeply depressing) fact that many religious claims seem to retain their emotional power for believers…

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In fact people do not know enough about themselves and what is good for them to form a sufficiently definite conception of…

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One rational standard of action is how well it promotes the end it seeks. Another standard is whether it aims at ends…

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I think the contribution people make is not proportionate to their fame or success. In fact, I think the relation is often…

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Utilitarians are usually empiricists who think they can solve every problem by accumulating enough empirical facts. They do not realize that thinking…

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Philosophy is about getting the facts right, but it is also about thinking rightly about them. Philosophy is more about the latter…

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As I understand it, Kantian constructivism is partly a position in normative ethics and partly a position in metaethics. In metaethics, it…

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In fact, if you read what Kant has to say about feeling, desire and emotion, you see that he is not at…

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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…

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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…

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There is a very common, though also very silly, picture of Kant according to which as empirical beings we are not free…

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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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