Virtues consist not only of acting in certain ways, but in ways of caring and feeling.

Popular 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.

Those who see Smith as a defender of capitalism - as it existed in Marx's day, or as it exists today - show above all that they are not living in the real world. They are behaving as though the undeveloped form of capitalism Smith studied is still with us.

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

Leaders of nations, and people whose wealth or fame gives them power over the lives of others quite often do more harm than good.

There is a lot in Adam Smith that reflects the insights of Rousseau and anticipates those of Marx.

I think that both Mill and Sidgwick are great and admirable philosophers, from whom we still have a lot to learn. I would not favor a form of Kantianism (if there is such a form) that treats Mill's or Sidgwick's moral philosophy with disrespect.