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

Kant attempted to work out a view of religion and religious belief according to which existing religions could be brought into harmony with modernity, science and reason.

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

Freedom is a permanent problem for us, both unavoidable and insoluble.

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

In any matter of moral importance, our first task, before we plunge ahead and decide what to do, is to figure out what we ought to do.

One rational standard of action is how well it promotes the end it seeks. Another standard is whether it aims at ends which are good. Both of these, but especially the former, depend on judgments of fact.