Surely the world will be a better place, at least marginally, if people have a better understanding of Kant and Hegel, if Marx's thought its studied and appreciated, if people gain a better understanding of Fichte, whose philosophy is far more important than people realize.

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

Clearly no working class movement ever came about that was able to do what Marx was hoping for.

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.

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.

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

The moral law is simply the way we think our own freedom as self-determination.