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Kant's description of most ethical duties reads more like a description of moral virtues and vices. Once we see this, we see that Kantian…

— Allen W. Wood

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

— Allen W. Wood

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

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

— Allen W. Wood

“The ethic of autonomy is based on the idea that people are, first and foremost, autonomous individuals with wants, needs, and preferences. People should…

— Jonathan Haidt

“Kant in fact offers four distinct arguments in defence of the necessity and importance of examples in the moral life of human beings. First,…

— Robert B. Louden

Kant did think he had a moral route back to rational faith in God, for those who need it, and he thought that at…

— Allen W. Wood

“in the field of ethics, of moral knowledge, it was approached by Kant with his principle of autonomy. This principle expresses his realization that…

— Karl Popper

“Kant does not seem to envisage that we are torn between two courses of action for moral reasons. He makes no provisions for genuine…

— Jens Timmermann

All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Ethics is not a mystic fantasy--nor a social convention--nor a dispensable, subjective luxury...Ethics is an objective necessity of man's survival--not by the grace of…

— Ayn Rand

Kant's system of duties constitutes a Doctrine of Virtue because the duties also indicate what kinds of attitudes, dispositions and feelings are morally virtuous…

— Allen W. Wood