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born 1942 United States

Allen William Wood (born October 26, 1942) is an American philosopher specialising in the work of Immanuel Kant and German Idealism, with particular interests in ethics and social philosophy.

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Here is a conceptual truth about reasons: If it is impossible for us to do otherwise, that can never be because there is a reason to act as we do.

Kantian Ethics (2008)

It is far from self-evident why Kant chooses this triad as his vehicle for systematizing the formulas of the moral principle.
Ch. 5. Humanity

Kantian Ethics (2008)

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