One rational standard of action is how well it promotes the end it seeks. Another standard is whether it aims at ends which are good. Both of these, but especially the former, depend on judgments of fact.

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

The relation of the law to the self is only a helpful way of thinking about the law, that helps us better understand its validity for us.

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

Capitalism has not proven to be a transitional form, a gateway to a higher human future.

We cannot predict the effects of our actions, especially our collective actions over generations or centuries, to use instrumental reasoning toward these big final ends to tell us what we ought to do.

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.