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[filed under theme 11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism
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Full Idea
A crucial idea for German Idealism (from Hamann) is that apparently passive receptivity and active spontaneity are in fact different degrees of the same 'activity, and the gap between subject and world can be closed.
Gist of Idea
Crucial to Idealism is the idea of continuity between receptivity and spontaneous judgement
Source
Andrew Bowie (German Philosophy: a very short introduction [2010], 3)
Book Ref
Bowie,Andrew: 'German Philosophy: very short intro' [OUP 2010], p.38
A Reaction
The 'passive' bit seems to be Hume's 'impressions', which are Kant's 'intuitions', which need 'spontaneous' interpretation to become experiences. Critics of Kant said this implied a dualism.
Related Idea
Idea 22057
Schelling sought a union between the productivities of nature and of the mind [Schelling, by Bowie]
The
38 ideas
with the same theme
[reality is an ultimate unity of all ideas]:
21971
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Transcendental philosophy is the subject becoming the originator of unified reality
[Kant]
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22067
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Poetry is true idealism, and the self-consciousness of the universe
[Novalis]
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22032
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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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21966
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Self-consciousness is the basis of knowledge, and knowing something is knowing myself
[Fichte]
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21967
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There is nothing to say about anything which is outside my consciousness
[Fichte]
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21969
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Awareness of reality comes from the free activity of consciousness
[Fichte]
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20951
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The absolute I divides into consciousness, and a world which is not-I
[Fichte, by Bowie]
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21964
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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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21968
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Abandon the thing-in-itself; things only exist in relation to our thinking
[Fichte]
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22300
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Existence is just a set of relationships
[Hegel]
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21774
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Genuine idealism is seeing the ideal structure of the world
[Hegel, by Houlgate]
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8928
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The Absolute is not supposed to be comprehended, but felt and intuited
[Hegel]
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8929
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In the Absolute everything is the same
[Hegel]
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8934
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Being is Thought
[Hegel]
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21972
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Hegel, unlike Kant, said how things appear is the same as how things are
[Hegel, by Moore,AW]
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22038
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Hegel's non-subjective idealism is the unity of subjective and objective viewpoints
[Hegel, by Pinkard]
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22044
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Hegel claimed his system was about the world, but it only mapped conceptual interdependence
[Pinkard on Hegel]
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21464
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The Absolute is the primitive system of concepts which are actualised
[Hegel, by Gardner]
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20954
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The 'absolute idea' is when all the contradictions are exhausted
[Hegel, by Bowie]
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21975
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The absolute idea is being, imperishable life, self-knowing truth, and all truth
[Hegel]
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21976
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The absolute idea is the great unity of the infinite system of concepts
[Hegel, by Moore,AW]
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22084
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Authentic thinking and reality have the same content
[Hegel]
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22074
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We must show that the whole of nature, because it is effective, is grounded in freedom
[Schelling]
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21925
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For Schelling the Absolute spirit manifests as nature in which self-consciousness evolves
[Schelling, by Lewis,PB]
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22045
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Metaphysics aims at the Absolute, which goes beyond subjective and objective viewpoints
[Schelling, by Pinkard]
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22072
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Schelling always affirmed the absolute status of freedom
[Schelling, by Courtine]
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19447
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The Absolute is the 'and' which unites 'spirit and nature'
[Feuerbach]
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23044
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All knowledge rests on a fundamental unity between the knower and what is known
[Green,TH, by Muirhead]
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6404
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British Idealists said reality is a single Mind which experiences itself
[Bradley, by Grayling]
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22299
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Bradley's objective idealism accepts reality (the Absolute), but says we can't fully describe it
[Bradley, by Potter]
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21343
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Qualities and relations are mere appearance; the Absolute is a single undifferentiated substance
[Bradley, by Heil]
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22055
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The Idealists saw the same unexplained spontaneity in Kant's judgements and choices
[Bowie]
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22054
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German Idealism tried to stop oppositions of appearances/things and receptivity/spontaneity
[Bowie]
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22056
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Crucial to Idealism is the idea of continuity between receptivity and spontaneous judgement
[Bowie]
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20950
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German Idealism says our thinking and nature have the same rational structure
[Bowie]
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22332
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German and British idealism is not about individual ideas, but the intelligibility of reality
[Glock]
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21911
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Fichte, Hegel and Schelling developed versions of Absolute Idealism
[Lewis,PB]
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21912
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Fichte, Schelling and Hegel rejected transcendental idealism
[Lewis,PB]
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