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All the ideas for 'Moral Dilemmas Revisited', 'Letters to Thomasius' and 'Towards a Critique of Hegel's Philosophy'

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 1. History of Philosophy

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All philosophies presuppose their historical moment, and arise from it [Feuerbach]

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

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I don't study Plato for his own sake; the primary aim is always understanding [Feuerbach]

2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic

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Each proposition has an antithesis, and truth exists as its refutation [Feuerbach]

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A dialectician has to be his own opponent [Feuerbach]

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 3. Value of Truth

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Truth forges an impersonal unity between people [Feuerbach]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / e. Ontological commitment problems

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To our consciousness it is language which looks unreal [Feuerbach]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects

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The essence of a circle is the equality of its radii [Leibniz]

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

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The Absolute is the 'and' which unites 'spirit and nature' [Feuerbach]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 5. Action Dilemmas / a. Dilemmas

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There is no restitution after a dilemma, if it only involved the agent, or just needed an explanation [Foot, by PG]

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I can't understand how someone can be necessarily wrong whatever he does [Foot]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

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Bodies are recreated in motion, and don't exist in intervening instants [Leibniz]