Ideas from 'works' by Johann Fichte [1798], by Theme Structure
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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly
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21970
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Philosophy attains its goal if one person feels perfect accord between their system and experience
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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 7. Status of Reason
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6912
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For Fichte there is no God outside the ego, and 'our religion is reason' [Feuerbach]
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11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism
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21973
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Fichte believed in things-in-themselves [Moore,AW]
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21914
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We can deduce experience from self-consciousness, without the thing-in-itself
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11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism
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20951
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The absolute I divides into consciousness, and a world which is not-I [Bowie]
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Reason arises from freedom, so philosophy starts from the self, and not from the laws of nature
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Abandon the thing-in-itself; things only exist in relation to our thinking
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 4. For Free Will
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21965
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Spinoza could not actually believe his determinism, because living requires free will
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