The picture of Kant as the 'theological Robespierre' or the "world-crusher" was first suggested by someone with whom Kant stood in a relation of phil….

Capitalism now seems more likely a swamp, a bog, a quicksand in which humanity is presently flailing about, unable to extricate itself, perhaps doome….

In general, those who defend capitalism are basically out of touch with reality..

Adam Smith saw the greed of modern capitalism for what it was - a form of destructive ambition that may have favorable effects on the productive capa….

People are often most proud of precisely those things of which they should most be ashamed..

Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect..

Our procedures of deliberation are not ways of finding out independent moral truths but instead ways of "constructing" these truths, in the process o….

Capitalism has proven to be a far more terrible system than Marx could ever bring himself to imagine. Those who are so deluded as to find something g….

It is sad to witness the persistence in our society of the racism and xenophobia that seems to be a permanent part of our political culture. It is sh….

Consequentialist theories begin with a very simple and undoubtedly valid point: Every action aims at a future end, and is seen as a means to it..

Marx's writings still have something to teach us about capitalism. They have little or nothing to teach us about any alternatives to it. Anyone who h….

Those who see Smith as a defender of capitalism - as it existed in Marx's day, or as it exists today - show above all that they are not living in the….

Kant considers belief in God and immortality to be items of "faith" because he relates faith to the pursuit of ends - in this case, the highest good..

If the problem of free will is to see how freedom fits into the order of nature, then Kant's basic view about the free will problem is that it is ins….

It has taken me a long time to realize where I most disagree with Marx. His assessment of capitalism is far too favorable. He took its instability, i….

Popular religion since the time of Kant and Fichte has gone in a direction they tried to prevent and that has been disastrous for the humanity both o….

Since we cannot know too much about the long term effects of our particular lives, and since success and fame are not good measures of the value of w….

People who enjoy the privileges of success must use these privileges to benefit those who do not have them. These privileges constitute a deep hole t….

Kant's treatments of rational theology and metaphysics were aimed primarily at theoretical questions. His attitude toward the pseudo-sciences of "spe….

It is a cause of shame to any member of the human race to be a member of the same species some of whose members could vote for any candidate for pres….

I think the term "Kantian constructivism" as an oxymoron. Kant was a constructivist about mathematics, but not about ethics..