Humanity Quotes by Allen W. Wood

11 Humanity quotes by Allen W. Wood

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Wood’s eleven brief philosophical notes on humanity distill complex ideas into clear, digestible thoughts for a swift intellectual pause.

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Since we cannot know too much about the long term effects of our particular lives, and since success and fame are not…

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Capitalism now seems more likely a swamp, a bog, a quicksand in which humanity is presently flailing about, unable to extricate itself,…

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When consequentialist theories are developed in terms of an equally shallow psychology of the good - such as a crude form of…

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Until I was a junior in high school, I was a "boy scientist" type and expected to go into chemistry. Then I…

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Popular religion since the time of Kant and Fichte has gone in a direction they tried to prevent and that has been…

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As Kant says, the contribution of any common laborer would be greater than that of the greatest philosopher unless the philosopher makes…

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What Smith and Marx have in common is that they were both philosophers of great vision and perceptiveness, deep humanity, and a…

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I wish that our culture could retain the symbolism and emotional power of traditional religion while combining it with reason and science…

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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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It has taken me a long time to realize where I most disagree with Marx. His assessment of capitalism is far too…

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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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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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