Utilitarians are usually empiricists who think they can solve every problem by accumulating enough empirical facts. They do not realize that thinking as well as experience is necessary to know anything or get anything right.
Allen W. WoodWe can treat human responses to cognitions as involving law-like connections grounded on free choices which show themselves in our character.
Allen W. WoodThose who employ their modest talents as best they can do make a contribution to a better human future.
Allen W. WoodThe 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.
Allen W. Wood