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7Fichte: Attempt at a Critique of All RevelationCambridge University Press. 2009.The Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation was the first published work of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, the founder of the German idealist movement in philosophy. It predated the system of philosophy which Fichte developed during his years in Jena, and for that reason - and possibly also because of its religious orientation - later commentators have tended to overlook the work in their treatments of Fichte's philosophy. It is, however, already representative of the most interesting aspects of Fichte…Read more
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15The Immortality of Moral FaithProceedings of the Sixth International Kant Congress 2 (2): 417-437. 1989.
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120Humanity as End in ItselfProceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress 1 301-319. 1995.
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137. Hegel’s Critique of MoralityIn Ludwig Siep (ed.), G. W. F. Hegel: Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts, De Gruyter. pp. 131-148. 2016.
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257. Hegel’s Critique of MoralityIn Ludwig Siep (ed.), G. W. F. Hegel: Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag. pp. 147-166. 2014.
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16Unsettling Obligations: Essays on Reason, Reality, and the Ethics of BeliefCenter for the Study of Language and Inf. 2002.Should we hold beliefs only insofar as they are rationally supportable? According to Allen W. Wood, we're morally obliged to do so—and yet how does this apply to religious beliefs? _Unsettling Obligations_ examines these and related ethical and philosophical issues, taking and defending stances on many of them. Along with the theme of belief and evidence, other topics include a historical perspective of philosophy based on the Enlightenment rationalist tradition and a study of how our practical …Read more
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7Thought, Estados Unidos, Cambridge University Press, 1999, 436 pSignos Filosóficos 5 233-263. 2001.
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German IdealismIn Dean Moyar (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Nineteenth Century Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 104. 2010.
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4213 Rational theology, moral faith, and religionIn Paul Guyer (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Kant, Cambridge University Press. pp. 3--394. 1992.
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2Hegel and MarxismIn Frederick C. Beiser (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Hegel, Cambridge University Press. pp. 414--444. 1993.
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121The Emptiness of the Moral WillThe Monist 72 (3): 454-483. 1989.It is well known that Hegel contrasts the “Moral standpoint” or “morality” with the higher standpoint of “social ethics” or “ethical life”, and that he regards Kant’s ethical theory as an expression of the moral standpoint. Hegel finds many shortcomings in the moral standpoint, but probably the most famous of Hegel’s criticisms of Kantian moral theory is the charge that Kant’s theory is an “empty formalism,” incapable of providing any “immanent doctrine of duties,” The Kantian moral law, says He…Read more
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21Mary J. Gregor 1928-1994Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 68 (5). 1995.Brief biography of Mary Gregor
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107Allen W.Wood Stanford University Fichte’s overall aim in the Second Chapter of the System of Ethics is to derive the applicability of the moral principle he has deduced in the First Chapter. That principle was: To determine one’s freedom solely in accordance with the concept of selfdetermination.1 To show that this principle can be applied is to derive its application from the conditions of free agency in which we find ourselves. In the section of the Second Chapter that will concern us, Fichte …Read more
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250Kant's moral religionCornell University Press. 1970.Kant's Moral Religion argues that Kant's doctrine of religious belief if consistent with his best critical thinking and, in fact, that the "moral arguments"--along with the faith they justify--are an integral part of Kant's critical thinking.
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49Does Hegel Have an Ethics?The Monist 74 (3): 358-385. 1991.Kierkegaard complained that Hegel’s system, for all its pretensions to completeness, was lacking an ethics. Even readers more sympathetic to Hegel have often agreed with this, saying that Hegel intended to replace ethics with some form of empirical social science.
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181Kant’s Ethical ThoughtCambridge University Press. 1999.This is a major new study of Kant's ethics that will transform the way students and scholars approach the subject in future. Allen Wood argues that Kant's ethical vision is grounded in the idea of the dignity of the rational nature of every human being. Undergoing both natural competitiveness and social antagonism the human species, according to Kant, develops the rational capacity to struggle against its impulses towards a human community in which the ends of all are to harmonize and coincide. …Read more
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357Allen Wood “What is the human being?” Kant sometimes treated this question as the most fundamental question of all philosophy: “The field of philosophy in the cosmopolitan sense can be brought down to the following questions: 1. What can I know? 1. What ought I to do? 1. What may I hope? 1. What is the human being? Metaphysics answers the first question, morals the second, religion the third, and anthropology the fourth. Fundamentally, however, we could reckon all of this to anthropology, becaus…Read more
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66Thomas E. Hill, Jr., "Dignity and Practical Reason in Kant's Moral Theory" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 32 (2): 314. 1994.
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8815. Ideology, False Consciousness, and Social IllusionIn Brian P. McLaughlin & Amélie Oksenberg Rorty (eds.), Perspectives on Self-Deception, University of California Press. pp. 345-363. 1988.
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76Kant's rational theologyCornell University Press. 1978.This book explores Kant's views on the concept of God and on the attempt to demonstrate God's existence as a means of understanding Kant's work as a whole and of achieving a proper appreciation of the contents of Kant's moral faith.
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16Enlightenment, revolution and romanticism: the Genesis of modern German political thought, 1790–1800History of European Ideas 17 (6): 804-806. 1993.
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26Attacking Morality: A Metaethical ProjectCanadian Journal of Philosophy 25 (sup1): 221-249. 1995.
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