Law Quotes by Allen W. Wood

9 Law quotes by Allen W. Wood

Allen W. Wood’s philosophical bent shines in his take on law. Across nine concise reflections he probes the moral underpinnings of legal systems, giving readers a thoughtful, academic glimpse.

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The relation of the law to the self is only a helpful way of thinking about the law, that helps us better…

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We can treat human responses to cognitions as involving law-like connections grounded on free choices which show themselves in our character.

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The moral law is simply the way we think our own freedom as self-determination.

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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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Kant says that we may regard ourselves as legislator of the moral law, and consider ourselves as its author, but not that…

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What is central to morality is rational self-constraint (acting from duty), in cease where there is no other incentive to do your…

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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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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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There is no author or legislator of the moral law. It is simply valid in itself in the nature or essence of…

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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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