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All the ideas for 'works', 'Internal and External Reasons' and 'Sententia on 'De Caelo''

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10 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly

21970

Philosophy attains its goal if one person feels perfect accord between their system and experience [Fichte]

22101

Philosophy aims to know the truth about the way things are [Aquinas]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 7. Status of Reason

6912	For Fichte there is no God outside the ego, and 'our religion is reason' [Fichte, by Feuerbach]

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

21973

Fichte believed in things-in-themselves [Fichte, by Moore,AW]

21914

We can deduce experience from self-consciousness, without the thing-in-itself [Fichte]

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

20951

The absolute I divides into consciousness, and a world which is not-I [Fichte, by Bowie]

21964

Reason arises from freedom, so philosophy starts from the self, and not from the laws of nature [Fichte]

21968

Abandon the thing-in-itself; things only exist in relation to our thinking [Fichte]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 4. For Free Will

21965

Spinoza could not actually believe his determinism, because living requires free will [Fichte]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / c. Reasons as causes

9284	Reasons are 'internal' if they give a person a motive to act, but 'external' otherwise [Williams,B]