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 real world. They are behaving as though the undeveloped form of capitalism Smith studied is still with us.

We can establish empirical criteria for free actions, and investigate human actions on the presupposition we are free.

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

I think that both Mill and Sidgwick are great and admirable philosophers, from whom we still have a lot to learn. I would not favor a form of Kantianism (if there is such a form) that treats Mill's or Sidgwick's moral philosophy with disrespect.

Freedom is a permanent problem for us, both unavoidable and insoluble.

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

Kant was a rational theologian. He did not pretend to be a biblical or revealed theologian.