Ancient Quote by Allen W. Wood

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

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

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

— 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

We are humanity, Kant says. Humanity needs us because we are it. Kant believes in duty and considers remaining alive a primary human duty.…

— Jennifer Michael Hecht

[Kant] was like many people: in intellectual matters he was skeptical, but in moral matters he believed imjplicitly in the maximx that he had…

— Bertrand Russell

Kant has been famous for his rejection of eudaimonism, but I think Kantian ethics has a great deal in common with Aristotle, and some…

— Allen W. Wood

“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, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather…

— Arthur Balfour

“On one hand, Kant thought science led to the conclusion that humans are elements in a vast machine operating by the laws of physics.…

— Nancy Pearcey

“You know, in the real world, there are people who are not actually Kantians....there are even Utilitarians.”

— Dr. Aaron Bunch

Some of Kant's particular moral opinions, either because he shared the prejudices of his time, or because of his own personal crotchets, can strike…

— Allen W. Wood