Believe Quote by 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

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

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

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

In my mind, there is no reason why Stoicism shouldn't become as popular as Buddhism, especially in the Western world, where the dominant culture,…

— Massimo Pigliucci

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

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

Ultimately, my more significant agreement is with a virtue tradition that features Aristotle and Descartes.

— Ernest Sosa

17th century philosophers were not in a position to understand the mind as well as we can today, since the advent of experimental methods…

— Hilary Kornblith

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

— Allen W. Wood

Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized.

— Allen W. Wood