Freedom is an unprovable but unavoidable presupposition, not an article of faith.

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

Teaching and writing about philosophy is about the only thing I've ever been really good at.

Capitalism has not proven to be a transitional form, a gateway to a higher human future.

It is often difficult to know about one's own era which philosophers in it will be remembered as the most important ones, but I think it is already clear that John Rawls is the greatest moral philosopher of the twentieth century.

It is both theoretically mistaken and morally wrong to regard others as objects of investigation rather than partners in free rational communication.

There is a tradition of "modernist" theology arising out of post-Kantian thought - Fichte was the real father of it, but Schleiermacher and others also developed it - which might have more promise if it had greater influence on popular religion.