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All the ideas for 'German Philosophy: a very short introduction', 'Justice as fairness: Political not Metaphysical' and 'Freedom of the Will and concept of a person'

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12 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]

16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 6. Self as Higher Awareness

9264	Persons are distinguished by a capacity for second-order desires [Frankfurt]

9266	A person essentially has second-order volitions, and not just second-order desires [Frankfurt]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 1. Nature of Free Will

9267	Free will is the capacity to choose what sort of will you have [Frankfurt]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act

9265	The will is the effective desire which actually leads to an action [Frankfurt]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / c. Agent causation

20015

Freedom of action needs the agent to identify with their reason for acting [Frankfurt, by Wilson/Schpall]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / g. Moral responsibility

9270	A 'wanton' is not a person, because they lack second-order volitions [Frankfurt]

9269	A person may be morally responsible without free will [Frankfurt]

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 4. Unfairness

22406

The maximisation of happiness must be done fairly [Rawls, by Smart]