24 ideas
23269 | Philosophy must start from clearly observed facts [Galen] |
22024 | Fichte's subjectivity struggles to then give any account of objectivity [Pinkard on Fichte] |
22017 | Normativity needs the possibility of negation, in affirmation and denial [Fichte, by Pinkard] |
22018 | Necessary truths derive from basic assertion and negation [Fichte, by Pinkard] |
22064 | Fichte's logic is much too narrow, and doesn't deduce ethics, art, society or life [Schlegel,F on Fichte] |
22032 | Fichte's key claim was that the subjective-objective distinction must itself be subjective [Fichte, by Pinkard] |
23266 | The spirit in the soul wants freedom, power and honour [Galen] |
22020 | We only see ourselves as self-conscious and rational in relation to other rationalities [Fichte] |
23219 | Stopping the heart doesn't terminate activity; pressing the brain does that [Galen, by Cobb] |
3488 | Freud treats the unconscious as intentional and hence mental [Freud, by Searle] |
23264 | Philosophers think faculties are in substances, and invent a faculty for every activity [Galen] |
22060 | The Self is the spontaneity, self-relatedness and unity needed for knowledge [Fichte, by Siep] |
22066 | Novalis sought a much wider concept of the ego than Fichte's proposal [Novalis on Fichte] |
22016 | The self is not a 'thing', but what emerges from an assertion of normativity [Fichte, by Pinkard] |
22019 | Consciousness of an object always entails awareness of the self [Fichte] |
5689 | Freud and others have shown that we don't know our own beliefs, feelings, motive and attitudes [Freud, by Shoemaker] |
23220 | The brain contains memory and reason, and is the source of sensation and decision [Galen] |
23950 | Freud said passions are pressures of some flowing hydraulic quantity [Freud, by Solomon] |
23265 | The rational part of the soul is the desire for truth, understanding and recollection [Galen] |
22061 | Judgement is distinguishing concepts, and seeing their relations [Fichte, by Siep] |
22344 | Freud is pessimistic about human nature; it is ambivalent motive and fantasy, rather than reason [Freud, by Murdoch] |
22023 | Fichte's idea of spontaneity implied that nothing counts unless we give it status [Fichte, by Pinkard] |
23268 | We execute irredeemable people, to protect ourselves, as a deterrent, and ending a bad life [Galen] |
22065 | Fichte reduces nature to a lifeless immobility [Schlegel,F on Fichte] |