People who enjoy the privileges of success must use these privileges to benefit those who do not have them. These privileges constitute a deep hole they need to climb out of if they are to prevent its being the case that the world would have been better off if they had never been born.

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

Kant does not regard freedom as an item of faith because it is too basic to our agency to be related to any end.

Consequentialist theories pretend that we can set some great big ends (the general happiness, human flourishing), provide ourselves with definite enough conceptions of them to make them the objects of instrumental reasoning, and then obtain enough reliable information about what actions will best promote them that we could regulate our conduct by these considerations alone.

Those who employ their modest talents as best they can do make a contribution to a better human future.

It is often difficult to know about one's own era which philosophers in it will be remembered as the most important ones, but I think it is already clear that John Rawls is the greatest moral philosopher of the twentieth century.

In general, those who defend capitalism are basically out of touch with reality.