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All the ideas for 'German Philosophy: a very short introduction', 'Les quaestiones de anima (lectures on the soul)' and 'Freedom to Act'

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6 ideas

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism

22049

Transcendental idealism aims to explain objectivity through subjectivity [Bowie]

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

22055

The Idealists saw the same unexplained spontaneity in Kant's judgements and choices [Bowie]

22054

German Idealism tried to stop oppositions of appearances/things and receptivity/spontaneity [Bowie]

22056

Crucial to Idealism is the idea of continuity between receptivity and spontaneous judgement [Bowie]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind

16618

Intellectual and moral states, and even the soul itself, depend on prime matter for their existence [Blasius, by Pasnau]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / c. Reasons as causes

19698

Deviant causal chain: a reason causes an action, but isn't the reason for which it was performed [Davidson, by Neta]