Allen W Wood
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 445108 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Allen W Wood |
| NOMBRES | Allen W |
| APELLIDO | Wood |
| FIRMA | WOOD A W |
| AFILIACIONES | Stanford University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 95 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 93 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 87 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 7 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1970 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Ian Proops
Kant’s position on the problem of free will can be perplexing and frustrating: all the real questions about human agential capacities or even about issues of moral imputability are empirical questions, which have empirical answers. But there remains a metaphysical or transcendental problem about the possibility of freedom, which is forever insoluble. Ian Proops’ discussion in The Fiery Test of Critique is to be commended for displaying the rare v…
Kant and Religion Roundtable
This article provides a summary and some replies to points offered in the Kantian Review Roundtable discussion of my recent book Kant and Religion . The main themes are as follows: Kant’s project in the Religion ; religious thinking as symbolic; the rational interpretation of revelation and of religious symbols; Kant’s moral argument for religious faith; the ‘psychological’-moral argument; Kant’s thesis that human nature contains a radical propen…
Capitalist Exploitation
Discussion of Marx’s charge that capital exploits labor has usually been characterized by two ideas: (1) The defensibility of this charge depends on accepting Marx’s ‘labor theory of value’ and (2) since the very word ‘exploitation’ means or connotes wrongfulness or injustice, the charge is in considerable tension with Marx’s rejection of moral rhetoric and with his occasional insistence that capitalism involves no injustice to the worker. In thi…
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
Kant and the struggle against evil
Kant held that the moral vocation of the human species was to strive toward moral perfection. But in Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason, he at least entertained as part of the human condition a rationalist version of the Christian doctrine of original sin: that human beings have a universal, innate and inextirpable propensity to evil. Are these two Kantian doctrines inconsistent, or at least in tension with each other? If they are, the…
Formulas of the Moral Law
This Element defends a reading of Kant's formulas of the moral law in Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. It disputes a long tradition concerning what the first formula (Universal Law/Law of Nature) attempts to do. The Element also expounds the Formulas of Humanity, Autonomy and the Realm of Ends, arguing that it is only the Formula of Humanity from which Kant derives general duties, and that it is only the third formula (Autonomy/Realm of E…
Method and System in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
This chapter argues that there is no substantive issue involved in the alleged controversy between “systematic” and “non-systematic” readers of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right . The source of the supposed issues is that accused of “non-systematic” readings are merely doing what any responsible historian of philosophy must do: they separate questions about what a historical philosopher thought from questions about how it may be appropriated today. The…
Marx and Kant on Capitalist Exploitation
Marx holds that capitalism is exploitative, but not unjust. Kant crafted a theory of right that explains why human beings are treated unjustly when the social system deprives them of the conditions of a free life. This essay attempts to relate Kant’s and Marx’s views to one another and to the capitalist social system, which these two thinkers studied at different stages of development. The economic and social theories of Fichte and Hegel are also…
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
Right
This chapter concerns Fichte’s philosophy of right, politics, and justice and Fichte’s later political thought. It deals with the separation of right from ethics in Kant and Fichte; Fichte’s foundation of right: recognition, the relation of right, and the normative concept of right; how Fichte’s derivation of right involves the combination of factual and normative claims, and a normativity entirely independent of morality or ethical duty; Fichte’…
Fichte’s Philosophy of Right and Ethics
Karl Marx
Karl Marx explains Marx's views from a philosophical standpoint and defends Marx against common misunderstandings and criticisms of his views. This new edition includes a new chapter on exploitation and a substantial new preface.
Fichte's Ethical Thought
The focus of the book is a systematic exposition of Fichte's most important ethical work, the System of Ethics (1798). It places this work in the context of Fichte's life and career, of his philosophical system as conceived in the later Jena period, and in relation to his philosophy of right or justice and politics. Following a brief account of Fichte's life, the book sets out the partial development of his Doctrine of Science and then the System…
"Immanuel Kant's "Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
A defining work of moral philosophy, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals has been highly influential and famously difficult. Dieter Schönecker and Allen Wood make clear the ways this work forms the basis of our modern moral outlook and how moral law relates to freedom and free will within Kant's overall philosophy
The Independence of Right from Ethics
Kant divides “morals’ (Sitten) into two parts: right (Recht) and ethics (Ethik). This chapter looks at the relation of these two parts, tries to understand the different ways in which each is grounded and how they are two independent parts of a single whole. Right (or justice) is concerned only with protecting external freedom (independence of our actions from control by the will of another), while ethics is concerned with the norms of self-const…
Hegel on Responsibility for Actions and Consequences
Hegel’s theory of imputability in the Philosophy of Right is an often overlooked source of insights into such matters as human agency, moral and legal accountability, intention, taking responsibility for the consequences of actions, and issues of “double effect” and “moral luck.” Here Hegel’s account is compared with Kant, and it is argued that Hegel does a better job of treating imputability.
Kant on Practical Reason
Kant’s derivation of the supreme principle of morality in the second section of Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals proceeds by way of a philosophical examination of “the practical faculty of reason” and an “exhibition” of its “rules of determination”. This chapter attempts to explicate that account of practical reason, and also to relate it to systematic reflections on the (somewhat different) task of offering practical justifications of act…
Fichte’s Absolute Freedom
J. G. Fichte described his conversion from Spinoza to Kantianism as turning on the acceptance of ‘the concept of absolute freedom’ and his own system of philosophy as ‘the first system of freedom’. This chapter explores the meaning and content of Fichte’s concept of ‘absolute freedom’ and the grounds on which Fichte thinks it is rational for us to believe the human will has absolute freedom. Fichte equates absolute freedom with volition, conceive…
Moral Worth, Merit, and Acting from Duty
Readers of Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals often think it is Kant’s position that only actions motivated by the thought of duty, to the exclusion of motives such as sympathy, have any value at all from the moral point of view, and that ‘acting from duty’ consists in giving priority to moral motives over non-moral motives when both are present. Both thoughts are mistaken. ‘Moral worth’ is one special case of the good will, and one …
Herder and Kant on History
Johann Gottfried Herder was an important philosopher of history. He was also a student of Immanuel Kant, whose views on history are less well known, but were developed – as were Herder’s – in the course of sometimes acrimonious exchanges between the two philosophers. Most treatments of this relationship emphasize the differences and points of controversy between Kant and Herder. This chapter argues that we understand Herder better if we view his …
Leaving Consequentialism Behind
This chapter challenges the commonplace that there is a genuine theoretical choice to be made between ‘consequentialist’ theories and ‘deontological’ theories. At the same time, it argues that the basic insight behind deontology goes deeper than the basic insight behind consequentialism. Using Fichte’s ethical theory as an example, and arguing for agreement between it and Aristotle’s conception of praxis, all action, properly speaking, is held to…
Fichte’s Intersubjective I
The challenge to philosophy of mind for the past two hundred years has been to overcome the Cartesian conception of mindsubjectivity. This essay explores the attempt to do this by J. G. Fichte, especially regarding intersubjectivity, or the knowledge of other minds. Fichte provides a transcendental deduction of the concept of the other I, as a condition for experiencing the individuality of our own I. The basis of this argument is the concept of …
Coercion, Manipulation, Exploitation
This chapter provides a brief discussion of these three related concepts, all of which refer to behavior that is morally problematic. It proposes that all three be understood as not ‘moralized’ (not as containing immorality as part of their very meaning). It proposes that coercion (being forced, compelled or constrained) be understood as either having no choice or as having no acceptable choice (the notion of coercion is no clearer than that of a…
The Cambridge edition of the works of Immanuel Kant
Kant's Rational Theology
In Kant's Rational Theology, Allen W. Wood explores Kant's views on the concept of God and on the attempt to demonstrate God's existence. We cannot have a full or balanced understanding of Kant's thought on religious subjects, he writes, long as we fail to take account of his reflections, often exceedingly abstract, obscure, and subtle, concerning the rational origin, content, and status of our concept of a supreme being.The importance of this as…
Idealism and Freedom
Henry Allison is one of the foremost interpreters of the philosophy of Kant. This new volume collects all his recent essays on Kant's theoretical and practical philosophy. All the essays postdate Allison's two major books on Kant (Kant's Transcendental Idealism, 1983, and Kant's Theory of Freedom, 1990), and together they constitute an attempt to respond to critics and to clarify, develop and apply some of the central theses of those books. Two a…
Fichte's Ethical Thought
The focus of the book is a systematic exposition of Fichte's most important ethical work, the System of Ethics (1798). It places this work in the context of Fichte's life and career, of his philosophical system as conceived in the later Jena period, and in relation to his philosophy of right or justice and politics. Following a brief account of Fichte's life, the book sets out the partial development of his Doctrine of Science and then the System…
The Free Development of Each
The Free Development of Each' collects 12 essays on the history of German philosophy by Allen W. Wood, one of the leading scholars in the field. They explore moral philosophy, politics, society, and history in the works of Kant, Herder, Fichte, Hegel, and Marx, and share the basic theme of freedom, as it appears in morality and in politics
Kant's Anatomy of Evil
Introduction 1. Kant's 'Metaphysics of Permanent Rupture': radical evil and the unity of reason Philip Rossi 2. Kantian moral pessimism Patrick Frierson 3. Kant, the Bible, and the recovery from radical evil Gordon Michalson 4. Kant's moral excluded middle Claudia Card 5. Evil everywhere: the ordinariness of Kantian radical evil Robert Louden 6. An alternative proof of the universal propensity to evil Pablo Muchnik 7. Kant and the intelligibility…
Constructions of Reason
The Emptiness of the Moral Will
Journal Article The Emptiness of the Moral Will Get access Allen W. Wood Allen W. Wood Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Monist, Volume 72, Issue 3, 1 July 1989, Pages 454–483, https://doi.org/10.5840/monist198972318 Published: 09 December 2014
Autonomie Und Anerkennung
"Immanuel Kant's "Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
A defining work of moral philosophy, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals has been highly influential and famously difficult. Dieter Schönecker and Allen Wood make clear the ways this work forms the basis of our modern moral outlook and how moral law relates to freedom and free will within Kant's overall philosophy
Fichte’s Philosophical Revolution
Habermas' Defense of Rationalism
Jtirgen Habermas defends an ethic which he describes as cognitivist, but cautious as regards ontological interpretations (RHM 338)' Practical questions, according to Habermas, admit of truth, and correct (richtige) norms must be capable of being grounded, in a way similar to true statements (LC 111, W 226). Habermas rejects ethical naturalism, however. For him, there is a fact-value distinction, and there are no moral in the sense that there are …
Kant and the struggle against evil
Kant held that the moral vocation of the human species was to strive toward moral perfection. But in Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason, he at least entertained as part of the human condition a rationalist version of the Christian doctrine of original sin: that human beings have a universal, innate and inextirpable propensity to evil. Are these two Kantian doctrines inconsistent, or at least in tension with each other? If they are, the…
"Kants "Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten
Kants Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten gehört zu den herausragenden Schriften der Philosophiegeschichte. Dieser einführende Kommentar richtet sich besonders an Studierende. Er ist bereits für Studienanfänger benutzbar und erschließt dennoch das Werk in seinem gesamten Umfang. Der besondere Wert des Kommentars für die Arbeit im Seminar liegt darin, dass er Kants Argumentation nah am Text erläutert und transparent macht. Knappe Kommentare verw…
Cross-Cultural Moral Philosophy
My remarks on Metz’s project will focus on another angle than the one Metz uses. I am more interested in thinking about whether and how far ethical standards from different cultures really differ, how to understand those differences, and how to relate them to what is objectively good, independently of people’s opinions on the matter. Of course one widely circulating opinion on the topic is that cross-cultural differences somehow demonstrate that …
Critique of Pure Reason
Creating the Kingdom of Ends
The Final Form of Kant's Practical Philosophy
Critique, Norm, and Utopia
Hegel
Divine Science and the Science of God
Kant's moral religion
Interview
Formal and Transcendental Logic
Kant's Moral Religion
Book Reviews Get access Stoic Philosophy. By J. M. Rist. (London: Cambridge University Press, 1969. Pp. x + 300. Price £3.10) Dorothy Walsh Dorothy Walsh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 21, Issue 82, January 1971, Pages 75–76, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217576 Published: 01 January 1971
History and Class-Consciousness
This is the first time one of the most important of Lukacs' early theoretical writings, published in Germany in 1923, has been made available in English. The book consists of a series of essays treating, among other topics, the definition of orthodox Marxism, the question of legality and illegality, Rosa Luxemburg as a Marxist, the changing function of Historic Marxism, class consciousness, and the substantiation and consciousness of the Proletar…
Hegel
Lectures on Philosophical Theology
Marx on Right and Justice
The Marxian Critique of Justice
Kant's Rational Theology
In Kant's Rational Theology, Allen W. Wood explores Kant's views on the concept of God and on the attempt to demonstrate God's existence. We cannot have a full or balanced understanding of Kant's thought on religious subjects, he writes, long as we fail to take account of his reflections, often exceedingly abstract, obscure, and subtle, concerning the rational origin, content, and status of our concept of a supreme being.The importance of this as…
Schopenhauer
Karl Marx
Marx and Morality
Marx and Morality
Autonomie Und Anerkennung
The Philosophy of Schopenhauer
Hegel
Habermas' Defense of Rationalism
Jtirgen Habermas defends an ethic which he describes as cognitivist, but cautious as regards ontological interpretations (RHM 338)' Practical questions, according to Habermas, admit of truth, and correct (richtige) norms must be capable of being grounded, in a way similar to true statements (LC 111, W 226). Habermas rejects ethical naturalism, however. For him, there is a fact-value distinction, and there are no moral in the sense that there are …
Between Tradition and Revolution
Critique, Norm, and Utopia
The Emptiness of the Moral Will
Journal Article The Emptiness of the Moral Will Get access Allen W. Wood Allen W. Wood Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Monist, Volume 72, Issue 3, 1 July 1989, Pages 454–483, https://doi.org/10.5840/monist198972318 Published: 09 December 2014
Hegel's Ethical Thought
This important new study offers a powerful exposition of the ethical theory underlying Hegel's philosophy of society, politics, and history. Professor Woodshows how Hegel applies his theory to such topics as human rights, the justification of legal punishment, criteria of moral responsibility, and the authority of individual conscience. The book includes a critical discussion of Hegel's treatment of other moral philosophers (especially Kant, Fich…
Hegel
This book is a translation of a classic work of modern social and political thought, Elements of the Philosophy of Right. Hegel's last major published work, is an attempt to systematize ethical theory, natural right, the philosophy of law, political theory and the sociology of the modern state into the framework of Hegel's philosophy of history. Hegel's work has been interpreted in radically different ways, influencing many political movements fr…
Fichte’s Philosophical Revolution
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