Many who are committed to reason and science have turned against religion altogether and treat it with fear and contempt.

Kant does represents a distinctively modern view of the human condition in contrast to that of ancient high culture, found in ancient Greek ethics and also in ancient Chinese ethics.

The picture of Kant as the 'theological Robespierre' or the "world-crusher" was first suggested by someone with whom Kant stood in a relation of philosophical disagreement but also great mutual respect: namely, Moses Mendelssohn.

Kant is not saying - about freedom or any other subject - anything of the form: "Not-p but we must assume that p." That's close to self-contradictory, like Moore's paradox: "p, but I don't believe that p".

Some empirical feelings, such as sympathy, are indispensable parts of certain moral virtues.

I do not know how much my own work has achieved, and I must not pretend it has done more than it has.

It would be nice, wouldn't it? if we could get comfortable about the problem of freedom. Kant thinks that we can't.