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.

The relation of the law to the self is only a helpful way of thinking about the law, that helps us better understand its validity for us.

The species of anti-Enlightenment religion we find among evangelical protestants is far more impoverished, anti-intellectual and downright wretched.

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

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.

Kant thinks we can show that there is no contradiction in supposing we are free.

That Hegel's theory is derivative from Fichte's does not prevent it from being strikingly original and of independent value.