Philosopher Quotes by Allen W. Wood

11 Philosopher quotes by Allen W. Wood

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Wood’s scholarly yet accessible style comes through in these eleven brief passages, offering a snapshot of his work on ancient and modern thought.

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Sometimes when a philosopher's views are widely rejected by the world, the fault is not with the philosopher but with the world.

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It is often difficult to know about one's own era which philosophers in it will be remembered as the most important ones,…

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I could identify for virtually every important figure in the history of modern continental philosophy an idea (or more than one) absolutely…

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When Marx, in the Theses on Feuerbach, says that only idealism up to now has understood the active side of material Praxis,…

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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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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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I think that both Mill and Sidgwick are great and admirable philosophers, from whom we still have a lot to learn. I…

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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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In my acquaintance with John Rawls, I found him to be a simple and honest man, who just by chance also happened…

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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 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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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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