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All the ideas for 'German Philosophy: a very short introduction', 'fragments/reports' and 'Letters to Jacques Lenfant'

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6 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic

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The most primitive thing in substances is force, which leads to their actions and dispositions [Leibniz]

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]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 2. Psuche

5880	Xenocrates held that the soul had no form or substance, but was number [Xenocrates, by Cicero]