Sometimes when a philosopher's views are widely rejected by the world, the fault is not with the philosopher but with the world.

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.

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

The 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.

People are often most proud of precisely those things of which they should most be ashamed.

Kant thinks of judgment as a special faculty or talent of the mind, not reducible to discursive reasoning but cultivated through experience and practice.

It is both theoretically mistaken and morally wrong to regard others as objects of investigation rather than partners in free rational communication.