23 ideas
2546 | Philosophy is a magnificent failure in its attempt to overstep the limits of our knowledge [McGinn] |
22024 | Fichte's subjectivity struggles to then give any account of objectivity [Pinkard on Fichte] |
2544 | Thoughts have a dual aspect: as they seem to introspection, and their underlying logical reality [McGinn] |
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] |
22020 | We only see ourselves as self-conscious and rational in relation to other rationalities [Fichte] |
2539 | Mental modules for language, social, action, theory, space, emotion [McGinn] |
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] |
2545 | Free will is mental causation in action [McGinn] |
2543 | Brains aren't made of anything special, suggesting panpsychism [McGinn] |
2540 | Examining mind sees no brain; examining brain sees no mind [McGinn] |
22061 | Judgement is distinguishing concepts, and seeing their relations [Fichte, by Siep] |
2547 | There is information if there are symbols which refer, and which can combine into a truth or falsehood [McGinn] |
22023 | Fichte's idea of spontaneity implied that nothing counts unless we give it status [Fichte, by Pinkard] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
22065 | Fichte reduces nature to a lifeless immobility [Schlegel,F on Fichte] |
2542 | Causation in the material world is energy-transfer, of motion, electricity or gravity [McGinn] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |