Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Epicurus, Palle Yourgrau and Immanuel Kant
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16. Persons / A. Concept of a Person / 4. Persons as Agents
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Within nature man is unimportant, but as moral person he is above any price [Kant]
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16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 3. Self as Non-physical
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I can express the motion of my body in a single point, but that doesn't mean it is a simple substance [Kant]
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16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 4. Presupposition of Self
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To some extent we must view ourselves as noumena [Kant, by Korsgaard]
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Representation would be impossible without the 'I think' that accompanies it [Kant]
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16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 7. Self and Body / a. Self needs body
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We need an account of the self based on rational principles, to avoid materialism [Kant]
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16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 2. Knowing the Self
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Self-knowledge can only be inner sensation, and thus appearance [Kant]
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16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 3. Limits of Introspection
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I have no cognition of myself as I am, but only as I appear to myself [Kant]
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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / c. Inadequacy of mental continuity
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I can only determine my existence in time via external things [Kant]
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As balls communicate motion, so substances could communicate consciousness, but not retain identity [Kant]
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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 3. Reference of 'I'
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For Kant the self is a purely formal idea, not a substance [Kant, by Lockwood]
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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 7. Self and Thinking
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Mental representations would not be mine if they did not belong to a unified self-consciousness [Kant]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 1. Nature of Free Will
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We must assume an absolute causal spontaneity beginning from itself [Kant]
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Free will is a kind of causality which works independently of other causes [Kant]
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Epicurus was the first to see the free will problem, and he was a libertarian [Epicurus, by Long/Sedley]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 2. Sources of Free Will
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We shall never be able to comprehend how freedom is possible [Kant]
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Epicurus showed that the swerve can give free motion in the atoms [Epicurus, by Diogenes of Oen.]
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The manifest will in the world of phenomena has to conform to the laws of nature [Kant]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 4. For Free Will
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There is no necessity to live with necessity [Epicurus]
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We must be free, because we can act against our strongest desires [Kant, by Korsgaard]
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If there is a first beginning, there can be other sequences initiated from nothing [Kant]
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We cannot conceive of reason as being externally controlled [Kant]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will
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Kant made the political will into a pure self-determined "free" will [Kant, by Marx/Engels]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism
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If everything is by necessity, then even denials of necessity are by necessity [Epicurus]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / b. Fate
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Sooner follow mythology, than accept the 'fate' of natural philosophers [Epicurus]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 7. Compatibilism
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We should not refer things to irresponsible necessity, but either to fortune or to our own will [Epicurus]
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