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

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

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

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

We can't coherently deny, or even decline to affirm, that we are free.

Our decisions need not be seen as resting on procedures that are merely instrumental in making judgments that are reliably truth-tracking. The procedures might be more directly related than that to truths about what is right or good, or about what we ought to do, or to principles that tell us what is true about these matters. And I have no metaphysical theory about the truth-conditions of such truths, except to say that as objective truths, they must be independent of the attitudes, decisions or actions that they are supposed to justify or for which they are to offer reasons.

When Marx, in the Theses on Feuerbach, says that only idealism up to now has understood the active side of material Praxis, what he says is more true of Fichte than of any other philosopher in the classical German tradition.