Philosophy is about getting the facts right, but it is also about thinking rightly about them. Philosophy is more about the latter… — Allen W. Wood Facts 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 Being nice Copy Share Image
Kant considers belief in God and immortality to be items of "faith" because he relates faith to the pursuit of ends -… — Allen W. Wood Belief Copy Share Image
Kant thinks that a free will is a will under moral laws and that freedom and the moral law are distinct thoughts… — Allen W. Wood Free will Copy Share Image
Adam Smith was aware of the way that economic interests could have a distorting and destructive effect both on the market and… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The relation of the law to the self is only a helpful way of thinking about the law, that helps us better… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I think the term "Kantian constructivism" as an oxymoron. Kant was a constructivist about mathematics, but not about ethics. — Allen W. Wood Constructivism Copy Share Image
Marx is thought of as an implacable foe of capitalism. But go back and read the first section of the Communist Manifesto.… — Allen W. Wood Bourgeoisie Copy Share Image
There is a tradition of "modernist" theology arising out of post-Kantian thought - Fichte was the real father of it, but Schleiermacher… — Allen W. Wood Father Copy Share Image
When consequentialist theories are developed in terms of an equally shallow psychology of the good - such as a crude form of… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Some of Kant's particular moral opinions, either because he shared the prejudices of his time, or because of his own personal crotchets,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
One rational standard of action is how well it promotes the end it seeks. Another standard is whether it aims at ends… — Allen W. Wood Action Copy Share Image
The Russian revolution did not occur until a generation after Marx's death. He was not involved with it, or with what came… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Until I was a junior in high school, I was a "boy scientist" type and expected to go into chemistry. Then I… — Allen W. Wood Books Copy Share Image
As long as the Republican party exists in its present form, our nation cannot endure as a free society. Still worse, under… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
In my acquaintance with John Rawls, I found him to be a simple and honest man, who just by chance also happened… — Allen W. Wood Acquaintance Copy Share Image
The problem I see with utilitarianism, or any form of consequentialism, is not that it gets the wrong answers to moral questions.… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
What Smith and Marx have in common is that they were both philosophers of great vision and perceptiveness, deep humanity, and a… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I wish that our culture could retain the symbolism and emotional power of traditional religion while combining it with reason and science… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
What are we to think of the shortsightedness of the great mass of people who are content to do nothing about it,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Popular religion since the time of Kant and Fichte has gone in a direction they tried to prevent and that has been… — Allen W. Wood Believer Copy Share Image
Adam Smith saw the greed of modern capitalism for what it was - a form of destructive ambition that may have favorable… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Capitalism has proven to be a far more terrible system than Marx could ever bring himself to imagine. Those who are so… — Allen W. Wood Capitalism Copy Share Image
People who enjoy the privileges of success must use these privileges to benefit those who do not have them. These privileges constitute… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Utilitarians are usually empiricists who think they can solve every problem by accumulating enough empirical facts. They do not realize that thinking… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Kant's description of most ethical duties reads more like a description of moral virtues and vices. Once we see this, we see… — 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… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
We totally misunderstand both his aims and his contribution if we try to read into Marx some anticipation of either the modest… — Allen W. Wood Acting Copy Share Image
It was an important part of Mendelssohn's philosophical and religious view that the traditional rationalist proofs for God's existence should be sound… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I think that both Mill and Sidgwick are great and admirable philosophers, from whom we still have a lot to learn. I… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I think if there were to be a solution to the problem of free will, it would have to be a compatibilist… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
