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.
Allen W. WoodPopular religion since the time of Kant and Fichte has gone in a direction they tried to prevent and that has been disastrous for the humanity both of believers and of the rest of us. Look at the role of religion in Republican presidential primaries if you need any confirmation of this last statement.
Allen W. WoodWhat I most fear now is that within a century or so there may not be any human future at all.
Allen W. WoodWe can establish empirical criteria for free actions, and investigate human actions on the presupposition we are free.
Allen W. Wood