Views Quotes by Allen W. Wood

9 Views quotes by Allen W. Wood

Allen W. Wood’s nine brief statements provide a quick glimpse into his philosophical analysis of ethics and human nature, each line neatly framed.

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It was an important part of Mendelssohn's philosophical and religious view that the traditional rationalist proofs for God's existence should be sound…

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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…

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If the problem of free will is to see how freedom fits into the order of nature, then Kant's basic view about…

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Kant attempted to work out a view of religion and religious belief according to which existing religions could be brought into harmony…

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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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Kant does represents a distinctively modern view of the human condition in contrast to that of ancient high culture, found in ancient…

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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 treatments of rational theology and metaphysics were aimed primarily at theoretical questions. His attitude toward the pseudo-sciences of "special metaphysics" in…

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In my view, there was a long period in which analytical philosophy had little to say about ethics. I think their intellectual…

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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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