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

Kant thinks that a free will is a will under moral laws and that freedom and the moral law are distinct thoughts that reciprocally imply each other. Fichte thinks they are the same thought.

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

Being aware of truths about what is good or right or about what we ought to do is not the same as deciding what to do. Nor can the former truths be derived from decisions about what to do, or about procedures for making such decisions, unless these procedures themselves rest in some way on the apprehension of truths about what we ought to do.

I think the contribution people make is not proportionate to their fame or success. In fact, I think the relation is often inverse.

Reason necessarily expresses itself through emotions and emotions are healthy only insofar as they are expressions of reason.

I wish that our culture could retain the symbolism and emotional power of traditional religion while combining it with reason and science and using the combination to enhance our humanity rather than impoverishing it by choosing the one side or the other.