When Marx, in the Theses on Feuerbach, says that only idealism up to now has understood the active side of material Praxis, what he says is more true of Fichte than of any other philosopher in the classical German tradition.

We can treat human responses to cognitions as involving law-like connections grounded on free choices which show themselves in our character.

Many who are committed to reason and science have turned against religion altogether and treat it with fear and contempt.

We can't coherently deny, or even decline to affirm, that we are free.

It is probably not a good idea to ask someone to expound a position they do not accept and do not feel they even fully understand.

Those who see Smith as a defender of capitalism - as it existed in Marx's day, or as it exists today - show above all that they are not living in the real world. They are behaving as though the undeveloped form of capitalism Smith studied is still with us.

What I most fear now is that within a century or so there may not be any human future at all.