Those who employ their modest talents as best they can do make a contribution to a better human future. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Capitalism has not proven to be a transitional form, a gateway to a higher human future. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
What I most fear now is that within a century or so there may not be any human future at all. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
It seems to me self-evident that it is worthwhile to understand the best thoughts of the past, to appropriate them, to criticize… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Popular religion since the time of Kant and Fichte has gone in a direction they tried to prevent and that has been… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Since we cannot know too much about the long term effects of our particular lives, and since success and fame are not… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Kant's aim was to develop a religion within the boundaries of mere reason (that is, reason unaided by special empirical revelation) and… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Some of Kant's particular moral opinions, either because he shared the prejudices of his time, or because of his own personal crotchets,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
It has taken me a long time to realize where I most disagree with Marx. His assessment of capitalism is far too… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
For the utilitarian, there is a fact of the matter about the good (the general happiness, or whatever conception of the good the utilitarian… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be free) can… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
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,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Some empirical feelings, such as sympathy, are indispensable parts of certain moral virtues. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
We commit not only theoretical error but also moral wrong in objectifying ourselves or other rational beings, ignoring their capacities for free action and… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
That Hegel's theory is derivative from Fichte's does not prevent it from being strikingly original and of independent value. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
It is sad to witness the persistence in our society of the racism and xenophobia that seems to be a permanent part of our… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and then turn… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
We can never prove that we are free or integrate our freedom in any way into our objective conception of the causal order of… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted to make… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
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… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
