Dilemma Quote by Jens Timmermann

We are generally forced to choose one way or the other of distancing ourselves from Kant. I suppose I tend to choose the irreligious…

— 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

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

“in the field of ethics, of moral knowledge, it was approached by Kant with his principle of autonomy. This principle expresses his realization that…

— Karl Popper

Not only in order to act morally, but even to formulate theoretical questions, devise experiments, choose which ones to perform and what conclusions to…

— Allen W. Wood

Kant does not think that the silly commandment "universalize your maxims" is the be-all and end-all of ethics or that it provides us with…

— 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 was right; morality did in the eighteenth century, as a matter of historical fact, presuppose something very like the teleological scheme of God,…

— Alasdair C. MacIntyre

[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

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

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, 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