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43The Immortality of Moral FaithProceedings of the Sixth International Kant Congress 2 (2): 417-437. 1989.
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230Humanity as End in ItselfProceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress 1 301-319. 1995.
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277. Hegel’s Critique of MoralityIn Ludwig Siep (ed.), G. W. F. Hegel: Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag. pp. 131-148. 2014.
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537. 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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43Unsettling 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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1German IdealismIn Dean Moyar (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Nineteenth Century Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 104. 2012.
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6313 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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3Hegel and MarxismIn Frederick C. Beiser (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Hegel, Cambridge University Press. pp. 414--444. 1993.
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224The 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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49Mary J. Gregor 1928-1994Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 68 (5). 1995.Brief biography of Mary Gregor
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160Historical materialism and functional explanationInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 29 (1-4). 1986.This paper is a critical examination of one central theme in Jon Elster's Making Sense of Marx; Elster's defense of ?methodological individualism? in social science and his related critique of Marx's use of ?functional explanation?. The paper does not quarrel with Elster's claim that the particular instances of functional explanation advanced by Marx are defective; what it criticizes is Elster's attempt to raise principled, philosophical objections to this type of explanation in the social scien…Read more
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Punishment, Retribution, and the Coercive Enforcement of RightIn Lara Denis (ed.), Kant's Metaphysics of Morals: A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press. 2010.
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61Kant's practical philosophyIn Karl Ameriks (ed.), The Cambridge companion to German idealism, Cambridge University Press. pp. 57--75. 2000.
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232Fichte's ethical thoughtOxford University Press. 2016.Allen 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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391Karl MarxRoutledge. 2004.This is one of the most respected books on Marx's philosophical thought. Wood explains Marx's views from a philosophical standpoint and defends him against common misunderstandings and criticisms. All the major philosophical topics in Marx's work are considered: the central concept of alienation; historical materialism and Marx's account of social classes; the nature and social function of morality; philosophical materialism and Marx's atheism; and Marx's use of the Hegelian dialectical method a…Read more
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59The Cambridge history of philosophy in the nineteenth century (1790-1870) (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2011.The latest volume in the Cambridge Histories of Philosophy series, The Cambridge History of Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century brings together twenty-nine leading experts in the field and covers the years 1790-1870. Their twenty-seven chapters provide a comprehensive survey of the period, organizing the material topically. After a brief editor's introduction, it begins with three chapters surveying the background of nineteenth century philosophy: followed by two on logic and mathematics, two o…Read more
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3Kant and the intelligibility of evilIn Sharon Anderson-Gold & Pablo Muchnik (eds.), Kant's Anatomy of Evil, Cambridge University Press. 2009.
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622I– Allen W. WoodAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 72 (1): 189-210. 1998.Kant's moral philosophy is grounded on the dignity of humanity as its sole fundamental value, and involves the claim that human beings are to be regarded as the ultimate end of nature. It might be thought that a theory of this kind would be incapable of grounding any conception of our relation to other living things or to the natural world which would value nonhuman creatures or respect humanity's natural environment. This paper criticizes Kant's argumentative strategy for dealing with our dutie…Read more
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3MarxIn Ted Honderich (ed.), The Philosophers: Introducing Great Western Thinkers, Oxford University Press. 2001.
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1230ExploitationSocial Philosophy and Policy 12 (2): 136--158. 1995.It is commonly thought that exploitation is unjust; some think it is part of the very meaning of the word 'exploitation' that it is unjust. Those who think this will suppose that the just society has to be one in which people do not exploit one another, at least on a large scale. I will argue that exploitation is not unjust by definition, and that a society (such as Our own) might be fundamentally just while nevertheless being pervasively exploitative. I do think that exploitation is nearly alwa…Read more
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