Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Dennis Whitcomb, Johann Fichte and Fred Sommers
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11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / a. Idealism
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Mental presentation are not empirical, but concern the strivings of the self [Fichte]
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11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism
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The thing-in-itself is an empty dream [Fichte, by Pinkard]
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Fichte's logic is much too narrow, and doesn't deduce ethics, art, society or life [Schlegel,F on Fichte]
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Fichte believed in things-in-themselves [Fichte, by Moore,AW]
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We can deduce experience from self-consciousness, without the thing-in-itself [Fichte]
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I am myself, but not the external object; so I only sense myself, and not the object [Fichte]
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11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism
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Awareness of reality comes from the free activity of consciousness [Fichte]
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Fichte's key claim was that the subjective-objective distinction must itself be subjective [Fichte, by Pinkard]
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The absolute I divides into consciousness, and a world which is not-I [Fichte, by Bowie]
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Reason arises from freedom, so philosophy starts from the self, and not from the laws of nature [Fichte]
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Abandon the thing-in-itself; things only exist in relation to our thinking [Fichte]
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Self-consciousness is the basis of knowledge, and knowing something is knowing myself [Fichte]
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There is nothing to say about anything which is outside my consciousness [Fichte]
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