Kant Quotes by Allen W. Wood

33 Kant quotes by Allen W. Wood

Allen W. Wood’s 33 remarks on Kant give you a reliable snapshot of his scholarly lens. The list gathers his most pointed observations, letting you see how he unpacks Kant’s ideas without wading through a massive archive.

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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 considers belief in God and immortality to be items of "faith" because he relates faith to the pursuit of ends -…

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Kant thinks we can show that there is no contradiction in supposing we are free.

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It would be nice, wouldn't it? if we could get comfortable about the problem of freedom. Kant thinks that we can't.

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Kant takes a free will to be a being or substance with the power to cause a state of the world (or…

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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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Kant can provide, and has provided, a good model for philosophers to think about the relation of metaphysics to science and scientific…

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Kant thinks of judgment as a special faculty or talent of the mind, not reducible to discursive reasoning but cultivated through experience…

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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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Kant thinks that a free will is a will under moral laws and that freedom and the moral law are distinct thoughts…

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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…

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I don't think Kant's theory looks bad to people except insofar as they have misunderstood it (for instance, as heartless and ironheaded,…

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Not only in order to act morally, but even to formulate theoretical questions, devise experiments, choose which ones to perform and what…

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I think Fichte did take it further than Kant by arguing that we can regard the moral law as objectively valid only…

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Kant is not saying - about freedom or any other subject - anything of the form: "Not-p but we must assume that…

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Kant has been famous for his rejection of eudaimonism, but I think Kantian ethics has a great deal in common with Aristotle,…

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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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Some of Kant's particular moral opinions, either because he shared the prejudices of his time, or because of his own personal crotchets,…

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Both Kant and Fichte thought of traditions of revealed religion as ways of symbolically (that is, with aesthetic emotional power) thinking about…

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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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From the beginning, there has been a tension in the reception of the Kantian idea of autonomy. If you emphasize the 'nomos'…

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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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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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“Especially to be avoided is approaching Kant's life in a spirit of hero worship or hagiography -- as though our interest in…

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“What is most remarkable about the philosophy of Kant, in my opinion, is the wide range of topics on which his thoughts…

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If the problem of free will is to see how freedom fits into the order of nature, then Kant's basic view about…

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Kant was a rational theologian. He did not pretend to be a biblical or revealed theologian.

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Kant did think he had a moral route back to rational faith in God, for those who need it, and he thought…

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Kant attempted to work out a view of religion and religious belief according to which existing religions could be brought into harmony…

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We are generally forced to choose one way or the other of distancing ourselves from Kant. I suppose I tend to choose…

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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 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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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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