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

Fichte would identify all states of our minds with states of our body - perhaps not merely of our brain, but the whole body as an acting organism.

Fichte is a necessary step to both Hegel and Marx.

Empiricist philosophy always tends to be anti-philosophy (and is often proud of it).

There is a tradition of "modernist" theology arising out of post-Kantian thought - Fichte was the real father of it, but Schleiermacher and others also developed it - which might have more promise if it had greater influence on popular religion.

Adam Smith was aware of the way that economic interests could have a distorting and destructive effect both on the market and on politics.

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