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“No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be free) can comprehend human nature.”

Quote by Allen W. Wood

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Allen W. Wood, born in 1942, is a renowned professor in the field of philosophy. He has made significant contributions to ethics and political philosophy, with a rich academic career that spans several decades. Wood's research has influenced scholars worldwide, and his works have provided new insights into moral and political theories. more

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“We commit not only theoretical error but also moral wrong in objectifying ourselves or other rational beings, ignoring their capacities for free action and communicative interaction with us.”

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“It is both theoretically mistaken and morally wrong to regard others as objects of investigation rather than partners in free rational communication.”

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“It is actually a nice question how far Descartes himself endorses the monological and metaphysically dualistic theory of mind associated with his name and his legacy in early modern philosophy. But Fichte does reject this tradition, by suggesting that an immaterial thinking substance is an incoherent notion, and a rational being whose rationality was not developed through communication with others is a transcendental impossibility.”

“Fichte is concerned with freedom as non-domination.”

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“Fichte thinks that the mutual recognition of one another as free beings belongs among the transcendental conditions of self-consciousness itself.”

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“Hegel's theory of recognition is basically derived from Fichte, who is its real author.”

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“That Hegel's theory is derivative from Fichte's does not prevent it from being strikingly original and of independent value.”

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“Fichte is a necessary step to both Hegel and Marx.”

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“When Marx, in the Theses on Feuerbach, says that only idealism up to now has understood the active side of material Praxis, what he says is more true of Fichte than of any other philosopher in the classical German tradition.”

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“I could identify for virtually every important figure in the history of modern continental philosophy an idea (or more than one) absolutely central to that philosopher's thought, whose original author was Fichte.”

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