Claims Quote by Allen W. Wood

I think the term "Kantian constructivism" as an oxymoron. Kant was a constructivist about mathematics, but not about 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

When it comes to deep and difficult ethical matters - such as the relation of an individual to God, or, I think, an individual…

— Alison Assiter

Our decisions need not be seen as resting on procedures that are merely instrumental in making judgments that are reliably truth-tracking. The procedures might…

— 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

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

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

— Ayn Rand

Our procedures of deliberation are not ways of finding out independent moral truths but instead ways of "constructing" these truths, in the process of…

— Allen W. Wood

Moral claims aren't, as a class, truth-value apt or not.

— Catherine Wilson

“philosopher has given a rational, objectively demonstrable, scientific answer to the question of why man needs a code of values. So long as that…

— Ayn Rand

In contrast to ethical relativism, Christianity sets forth a system of absolute moral values and affirms that God has placed within the very structure…

— Martin Luther

Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs and values.

— John Ziman