Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect.

What Smith and Marx have in common is that they were both philosophers of great vision and perceptiveness, deep humanity, and a sense of social reality that has been lost in the abstractly formalistic economic theories that have dominated the field since the last third of the nineteenth century.

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

Empiricist philosophy always tends to be anti-philosophy (and is often proud of it).

Capitalism has proven to be a far more terrible system than Marx could ever bring himself to imagine. Those who are so deluded as to find something good in it, or even feel loyalty toward it, are its most pitiful victims.

Kant did think he had a moral route back to rational faith in God, for those who need it, and he thought that at some level, we all do need something like it.

It is probably not a good idea to ask someone to expound a position they do not accept and do not feel they even fully understand.