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All the ideas for 'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'Schopenhauer' and 'Metaphysical Foundations of Mathematics'

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11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism

21912	Fichte, Schelling and Hegel rejected transcendental idealism [Lewis,PB]
	Full Idea: Fichte, Schelling and Hegel were united in their opposition to Kant's Transcendental Idealism.
	From: Peter B. Lewis (Schopenhauer [2012], 3)
	A reaction: That is, they preferred genuine idealism, to the mere idealist attitude Kant felt that we are forced to adopt.

21911	Fichte, Hegel and Schelling developed versions of Absolute Idealism [Lewis,PB]
	Full Idea: At the University of Jena, Fichte, Hegel and Schelling critically developed aspects of Kant's philosophy, each in his own way, thereby giving rise to the movement known as Absolute Idealism, see reality as universal God-like self-consciousness.
	From: Peter B. Lewis (Schopenhauer [2012], 2)
	A reaction: Is asking how anyone can possibly have believed such a bizarre and ridiculous idea a) uneducated, b) stupid, c) unimaginative, or d) very sensible? It sounds awfully like Spinoza's concept of God. Also Anaxagoras.

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues

7903	The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom [Nagarjuna]
	Full Idea: The six perfections are of giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom.
	From: Nagarjuna (Mahaprajnaparamitashastra [c.120], 88)
	A reaction: What is 'morality', if giving is not part of it? I like patience and vigour being two of the virtues, which immediately implies an Aristotelian mean (which is always what is 'appropriate').

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / g. Time's arrow

22908	When one element contains the grounds of the other, the first one is prior in time [Leibniz]
	Full Idea: When one of two non-contemporaneous elements contains the grounds for the other, the former is regarded as the antecedent, and the latter as the consequence
	From: Gottfried Leibniz (Metaphysical Foundations of Mathematics [1715], p.201)
	A reaction: Bardon cites this passage of Leibniz as the origin of the idea that time's arrow is explained by the direction of causation. Bardon prefers it to the psychological and entropy accounts.