Kant did think he had a moral route back to rational faith in God, for those who need it, and he thought that at some level, we all do need something like it.

Adam Smith was aware of the way that economic interests could have a distorting and destructive effect both on the market and on politics.

The species of anti-Enlightenment religion we find among evangelical protestants is far more impoverished, anti-intellectual and downright wretched.

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

No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be free) can comprehend human nature.

Freedom is a permanent problem for us, both unavoidable and insoluble.

I think the contribution people make is not proportionate to their fame or success. In fact, I think the relation is often inverse.