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

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

No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be free) can comprehend human nature.

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

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

Kant says that we may regard ourselves as legislator of the moral law, and consider ourselves as its author, but not that we are legislators or authors of the law.

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