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All the ideas for 'German Philosophy: a very short introduction', 'Ambitious, yet modest, Metaphysics' and 'Manuscript remains'

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10 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

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Philosophers can't be religious, and don't need to be; philosophy is perilous but free [Schopenhauer]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 5. Metaphysics beyond Science

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Esoteric metaphysics aims to be top science, investigating ultimate reality [Hofweber]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics

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Science has discovered properties of things, so there are properties - so who needs metaphysics? [Hofweber]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 1. Quantification

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The quantifier in logic is not like the ordinary English one (which has empty names, non-denoting terms etc) [Hofweber]

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

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Transcendental idealism aims to explain objectivity through subjectivity [Bowie]

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

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

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

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

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

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As the subject of willing I am wretched, but absorption in knowledge is bliss [Schopenhauer]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics

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To deduce morality from reason is blasphemy, because it is holy, and far above reason [Schopenhauer]