Combining Philosophers

Ideas for David Fair, Georg W.F.Hegel and Arthur Schopenhauer

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16. Persons / A. Concept of a Person / 4. Persons as Agents
5647 Hegel claims knowledge of self presupposes desire, and hence objects [Hegel, by Scruton]
22770 A person is a being which is aware of its own self-directed and free subjectivity [Hegel]
16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 2. Knowing the Self
4191 What we know in ourselves is not a knower but a will [Schopenhauer]
21367 I know both aspects of my body, as representation, and as will [Schopenhauer]
16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 3. Reference of 'I'
21368 The knot of the world is the use of 'I' to refer to both willing and knowing [Schopenhauer]
16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 2. Self as Social Construct
5648 For Hegel knowledge of self presupposes objects, and also a public and moral social world [Hegel, by Scruton]
22788 A human only become a somebody as a member of a social estate [Hegel]
22792 Individuals attain their right by discovering their self-consciousness in institutions [Hegel]
16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 4. Denial of the Self
4175 It is as perverse to resent our individuality being replaced by others, as to resent the body renewing itself [Schopenhauer]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 1. Nature of Free Will
21780 A free will primarily wills its own freedoom [Hegel, by Houlgate]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 2. Sources of Free Will
22040 Freedom is produced by the activity of the mind, and is not intrinsically given [Hegel]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will
4176 We all regard ourselves a priori as free, but see from experience that character and motive compel us [Schopenhauer]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism
21477 We don't control our own thinking [Schopenhauer]
4170 Man's actions are not free, because they follow strictly from impact of motive on character [Schopenhauer]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 7. Compatibilism
15617 In abstraction, beyond finitude, freedom and necessity must exist together [Hegel]