Time Quotes by Allen W. Wood

9 Time quotes by Allen W. Wood

Allen W. Wood’s reflections on time are succinct yet philosophically rich, presented in nine brief quotes. This small set offers a clear glimpse into his analytical approach, perfect for a quick intellectual pause.

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Those who employ their modest talents as best they can do make a contribution to a better human future.

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Capitalism has not proven to be a transitional form, a gateway to a higher human future.

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What I most fear now is that within a century or so there may not be any human future at all.

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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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Popular religion since the time of Kant and Fichte has gone in a direction they tried to prevent and that has been…

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Since we cannot know too much about the long term effects of our particular lives, and since success and fame are not…

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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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Kant's aim was to develop a religion within the boundaries of mere reason (that is, reason unaided by special empirical revelation) and…

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It has taken me a long time to realize where I most disagree with Marx. His assessment of capitalism is far too…

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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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