Self Quotes by Allen W. Wood

10 Self quotes by Allen W. Wood

Allen W. Wood’s ten short reflections probe the nature of the self, each offering a clear, philosophical glimpse that can spark a quiet moment of thought.

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It seems to me self-evident that it is worthwhile to understand the best thoughts of the past, to appropriate them, to criticize…

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Fichte thinks that the mutual recognition of one another as free beings belongs among the transcendental conditions of self-consciousness itself.

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

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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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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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Fichte takes an I or free will to be not a thing or being but an act which is not undetermined but…

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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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As with many metaphysical and religious questions, Kant thinks they lie beyond our power to answer them. If you can't stand the…

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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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Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted…

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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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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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