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All the ideas for 'Two Notions of Being: Entity and Essence', 'fragments/reports' and 'Critique of Judgement II: Teleological'

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems

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Metaphysics aims to identify categories of being, and show their interdependency [Lowe]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 6. Metaphysics as Conceptual

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Philosophy aims not at the 'analysis of concepts', but at understanding the essences of things [Lowe]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / d. Coincident objects

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Holes, shadows and spots of light can coincide without being identical [Lowe]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 8. Essence as Explanatory

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All things must have an essence (a 'what it is'), or we would be unable to think about them [Lowe]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 14. Knowledge of Essences

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Knowing an essence is just knowing what the thing is, not knowing some further thing [Lowe]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 4. Type Identity

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Each thing has to be of a general kind, because it belongs to some category [Lowe]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value

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What is contemplated must have a higher value than contemplation [Kant, by Korsgaard]

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Only a good will can give man's being, and hence the world, a final purpose [Kant]

23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 1. Ethical Egoism

3031	The greatest good is not the achievement of desire, but to desire what is proper [Menedemus, by Diog. Laertius]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 1. Nature

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The Critique of Judgement aims for a principle that unities humanity and nature [Kant, by Bowie]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / b. Limited purposes

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Without men creation would be in vain, and without final purpose [Kant]