As long as the Republican party exists in its present form, our nation cannot endure as a free society. Still worse, under their policies the human race is being rapidly propelled toward its extinction.

Reason necessarily expresses itself through emotions and emotions are healthy only insofar as they are expressions of reason.

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.

Leaders of nations, and people whose wealth or fame gives them power over the lives of others quite often do more harm than good.

Empiricist philosophy always tends to be anti-philosophy (and is often proud of it).

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

The problem I see with utilitarianism, or any form of consequentialism, is not that it gets the wrong answers to moral questions. I think just about any moral theory, worked out intelligently, and applied with good judgment, would get just about the same results as any other.