Fichte takes an I or free will to be not a thing or being but an act which is not undetermined but self-determined, in accordance with reasons or norms rationally self-given.
Allen W. WoodThere is a lot in Adam Smith that reflects the insights of Rousseau and anticipates those of Marx.
Allen W. WoodThe Russian revolution did not occur until a generation after Marx's death. He was not involved with it, or with what came after it. His works do not describe post-capitalist society, and a fortiori they do not recommend any part of what the Soviet Union did.
Allen W. WoodPeople are often most proud of precisely those things of which they should most be ashamed.
Allen W. Wood