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All the ideas for 'Letters to Wolff', 'Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature' and 'What is an Idea?'

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6 ideas

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties

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The properties of a thing flow from its essence [Leibniz]

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

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For Schelling the Absolute spirit manifests as nature in which self-consciousness evolves [Schelling, by Lewis,PB]

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Metaphysics aims at the Absolute, which goes beyond subjective and objective viewpoints [Schelling, by Pinkard]

18. Thought / C. Content / 2. Ideas

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By an 'idea' I mean not an actual thought, but the resources we can draw on to think [Leibniz]

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

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Schelling sought a union between the productivities of nature and of the mind [Schelling, by Bowie]

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Schelling made organisms central to nature, because mere mechanism could never produce them [Schelling, by Pinkard]