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

Philosophy is about getting the facts right, but it is also about thinking rightly about them. Philosophy is more about the latter than the former.

Capitalism now seems more likely a swamp, a bog, a quicksand in which humanity is presently flailing about, unable to extricate itself, perhaps doomed to perish within a few generations from the long term effects of the technology which seemed to Marx its greatest gift to humanity.

It seems to me self-evident that it is worthwhile to understand the best thoughts of the past, to appropriate them, to criticize them.

I do not know how much my own work has achieved, and I must not pretend it has done more than it has.

We are generally forced to choose one way or the other of distancing ourselves from Kant. I suppose I tend to choose the irreligious way. But I regret that Kant's path has not been followed.

Kant can provide, and has provided, a good model for philosophers to think about the relation of metaphysics to science and scientific methodology.