Contradiction Quote by Allen W. Wood Download Open image “Kant thinks we can show that there is no contradiction in supposing we are free.” — Allen W. Wood ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contradiction Shows Supposing Thinking
There is a very common, though also very silly, picture of Kant according to which as empirical beings we are not free at all, and we are free only as noumenal jellyfish floating about in an intelligible sea above the heavens, outside any context in which our supposedly "free" choices could have any conceivable human meaning or significance. Part of… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share
Kant does not regard freedom as an item of faith because it is too basic to our agency to be related to any end. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Kant is not saying - about freedom or any other subject - anything of the form: "Not-p but we must assume that p." That's… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
It would be nice, wouldn't it? if we could get comfortable about the problem of freedom. Kant thinks that we can't. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
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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 the free… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
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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… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be free) can… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Some empirical feelings, such as sympathy, are indispensable parts of certain moral virtues. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
We commit not only theoretical error but also moral wrong in objectifying ourselves or other rational beings, ignoring their capacities for free action and… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
That Hegel's theory is derivative from Fichte's does not prevent it from being strikingly original and of independent value. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
It is sad to witness the persistence in our society of the racism and xenophobia that seems to be a permanent part of our… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and then turn… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
We can never prove that we are free or integrate our freedom in any way into our objective conception of the causal order of… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted to make… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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