We can't coherently deny, or even decline to affirm, that we are free. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The moral law is simply the way we think our own freedom as self-determination. — Allen W. Wood Character Copy Share Image
Some empirical feelings, such as sympathy, are indispensable parts of certain moral virtues. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Clearly no working class movement ever came about that was able to do what Marx was hoping for. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Freedom is a permanent problem for us, both unavoidable and insoluble. — Allen W. Wood Freedom Copy Share Image
People are often most proud of precisely those things of which they should most be ashamed. — Allen W. Wood Ashamed Copy Share Image
Virtues consist not only of acting in certain ways, but in ways of caring and feeling. — Allen W. Wood Acting Copy Share Image
Kant thinks we can show that there is no contradiction in supposing we are free. — Allen W. Wood Contradiction Copy Share Image
In any matter of moral importance, our first task, before we plunge ahead and decide what to do, is to figure out… — Allen W. Wood Character Copy Share Image
Leaders of nations, and people whose wealth or fame gives them power over the lives of others quite often do more harm… — Allen W. Wood Fame Copy Share Image
Kant does represents a distinctively modern view of the human condition in contrast to that of ancient high culture, found in ancient… — Allen W. Wood Ancient Copy Share Image
Kant did think he had a moral route back to rational faith in God, for those who need it, and he thought… — Allen W. Wood Faith in god Copy Share Image
Our procedures of deliberation are not ways of finding out independent moral truths but instead ways of "constructing" these truths, in the… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
It is probably not a good idea to ask someone to expound a position they do not accept and do not feel… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
We usually can't know how, and we probably should not even ask, how our lives contribute to a better world. — 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 often difficult to know about one's own era which philosophers in it will be remembered as the most important ones,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I am a one-trick pony. But I have worked hard at something I would have liked to do even if I weren't… — Allen W. Wood Good living Copy Share Image
Kant does not think that the silly commandment "universalize your maxims" is the be-all and end-all of ethics or that it provides… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Karl Marx left it to others to find the way beyond capitalism to a higher form of society. He saw his role… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
It is a culturally interesting (but also deeply depressing) fact that many religious claims seem to retain their emotional power for believers… — Allen W. Wood Believer Copy Share Image
Being aware of truths about what is good or right or about what we ought to do is not the same as… — Allen W. Wood Apprehension Copy Share Image
Capitalism now seems more likely a swamp, a bog, a quicksand in which humanity is presently flailing about, unable to extricate itself,… — 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… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Kant's treatments of rational theology and metaphysics were aimed primarily at theoretical questions. His attitude toward the pseudo-sciences of "special metaphysics" in… — Allen W. Wood Attitude Copy Share Image
There is no author or legislator of the moral law. It is simply valid in itself in the nature or essence of… — Allen W. Wood Autonomous Copy Share Image
It is actually a nice question how far Descartes himself endorses the monological and metaphysically dualistic theory of mind associated with his… — Allen W. Wood Communication Copy Share Image
In fact, if you read what Kant has to say about feeling, desire and emotion, you see that he is not at… — 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… — Allen W. Wood Abstract Copy Share Image
From the beginning, there has been a tension in the reception of the Kantian idea of autonomy. If you emphasize the 'nomos'… — Allen W. Wood Autonomy Copy Share Image
In my view, there was a long period in which analytical philosophy had little to say about ethics. I think their intellectual… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
When people think that moral problems can be solved by some simple strategy of calculation, that sets them up for ghastly overreaching.… — Allen W. Wood Ability Copy Share Image
It seems to me self-evident that it is worthwhile to understand the best thoughts of the past, to appropriate them, to criticize… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
We can make mistakes about what we ought to do, and these are not the same as making bad decisions about what… — Allen W. Wood Bad decision 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… — Allen W. Wood Body Copy Share Image
If the problem of free will is to see how freedom fits into the order of nature, then Kant's basic view about… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Reason necessarily expresses itself through emotions and emotions are healthy only insofar as they are expressions of reason. — Allen W. Wood Emotion Copy Share Image
Kant thinks of judgment as a special faculty or talent of the mind, not reducible to discursive reasoning but cultivated through experience… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Fichte thinks that the mutual recognition of one another as free beings belongs among the transcendental conditions of self-consciousness itself. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
If being "iron headed" is to be lacking such feelings, then Kant's position is that an ironheaded person could not be a… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
