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All the ideas for 'works', 'Liberalism and the Limits of Justice' and 'Letters to William Molyneux'

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11 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]

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]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 13. Nominal Essence

12812

Things have real essences, but we categorise them according to the ideas we receive [Locke]

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]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 4. Original Position / a. Original position

20594

Choosers in the 'original position' have been stripped of most human characteristics [Sandel, by Tuckness/Wolf]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / b. Liberal individualism

21120

The self is 'unencumbered' if it can abandon its roles and commitments without losing identity [Sandel, by Shorten]