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All the ideas for 'The Courtier and the Heretic', 'Human Freedom and the Self' and 'Nietzsche: a philosophical biography'

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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / d. Nineteenth century philosophy

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Hegel, Fichte and Schelling wanted to know Kant's thing-in-itself, as ego, or nature, or spirit [Safranski]

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

3444	If actions are not caused by other events, and are not causeless, they must be caused by the person [Chisholm]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will

3446	For Hobbes (but not for Kant) a person's actions can be deduced from their desires and beliefs [Chisholm]

9268	If free will miraculously interrupts causation, animals might do that; why would we want to do it? [Frankfurt on Chisholm]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 4. Responsibility for Actions

3442	Responsibility seems to conflict with events being either caused or not caused [Chisholm]

3443	Desires may rule us, but are we responsible for our desires? [Chisholm]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 10. Theocracy

7825	The politics of Leibniz was the reunification of Christianity [Stewart,M]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata

3445	Causation among objects relates either events or states [Chisholm]