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• Kant thinks that a free will is a will under moral laws and that freedom and the moral law are distinct thoughts that reciprocally imply each other. Fichte thinks they are the same thought.

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  Thinking, Law, Moral

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• Fichte takes an I or free will to be not a thing or being but an act which is not undetermined but self-determined, in accordance with reasons or norms rationally self-given.

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  Self, Determined, Free Will

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• Fichte would identify all states of our minds with states of our body - perhaps not merely of our brain, but the whole body as an acting organism.

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  Brain, Mind, Acting

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• I think the contribution people make is not proportionate to their fame or success. In fact, I think the relation is often inverse.

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  Thinking, People, Facts

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• We commit not only theoretical error but also moral wrong in objectifying ourselves or other rational beings, ignoring their capacities for free action and communicative interaction with us.

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  Errors, Objectifying, Action

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• Fichte is concerned with freedom as non-domination.

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  Domination, Concerned

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• I think Fichte did take it further than Kant by arguing that we can regard the moral law as objectively valid only by seeing it as addressed to us by another being, even though Fichte thought God could not literally be a person who could address us.

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  Thinking, Law, Addresses

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• Fichte thinks that the mutual recognition of one another as free beings belongs among the transcendental conditions of self-consciousness itself.

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  Thinking, Self, Recognition

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• Hegel's theory of recognition is basically derived from Fichte, who is its real author.

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  Real, Recognition, Hegel

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• Fichte is a necessary step to both Hegel and Marx.

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  Steps, Hegel

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• We totally misunderstand both his aims and his contribution if we try to read into Marx some anticipation of either the modest successes or the disastrous failures of those who later thought they were acting in his name.

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  Names, Trying, Acting

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• Freedom is an unprovable but unavoidable presupposition, not an article of faith.

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  Articles

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• Clearly no working class movement ever came about that was able to do what Marx was hoping for.

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  Class, Movement, Able

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• What are we to think of the shortsightedness of the great mass of people who are content to do nothing about it, and even worse, the greed or venality of the rich and powerful who deliberately bar the way to human survival?

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  Powerful, Thinking, People

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• What I most fear now is that within a century or so there may not be any human future at all.

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  May, Century, Humans

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• Kant can provide, and has provided, a good model for philosophers to think about the relation of metaphysics to science and scientific methodology.

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  Thinking, Philosopher, Methodology

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• I could identify for virtually every important figure in the history of modern continental philosophy an idea (or more than one) absolutely central to that philosopher's thought, whose original author was Fichte.

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  Philosophy, Ideas, Important

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• Leaders of nations, and people whose wealth or fame gives them power over the lives of others quite often do more harm than good.

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  People, Giving, Leader

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• We can never prove that we are free or integrate our freedom in any way into our objective conception of the causal order of nature.

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  Order, Way, Integrating

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• Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted to make an exception to a recognized duty out of self-preference. The universalizability test is supposed help the agent to see, in a particular case of moral judgment, that self-preference is not a satisfactory reason for exempting yourself from a duty you recognize. Kant thinks, as a matter of human nature, that this situation arises often enough and that we need a canon of judgment to guard against it.

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  Thinking, Self, Special

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• If we decide rightly what to do, or use a correct procedure for making such decisions, that has to be because the decisions or the procedure rest on good reasons, and these reasons consist in the apprehension of truths about what we ought to do. Because these truths must constitute reasons for our decisions, and because in the rational order, reasons must always precede the decisions based on them, the truth conditions of claims about what we ought to cannot be reduced to, or constructed out of, decisions about what to do, or procedures for making such decisions.

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  Order, Decision, Use

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• Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's Groundwork); second, a set of duties, not deduced from but derived from this principle, by way of its interpretation or specification, its application to the general conditions of human life - which Kant does in the Doctrine of virtue, the second main part of the Metaphysics of Morals; and then finally an act of judgment, through which these duties are applied to particular cases.

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  Principles, Doe, Doctrine

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• As with many metaphysical and religious questions, Kant thinks they lie beyond our power to answer them. If you can't stand the frustration involved in accepting this, and insist on finding some more stable position which affords you peace of mind and intellectual self-complacency, then you will find Kant's position "problematic" in the sense that you can't bring yourself to accept it. You may try to kid yourself into accepting either some naturalistic deflationary answer to the problem or some dishonest supernaturalist answer.

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  Religious, Lying, Kids

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• Kant's system of duties constitutes a Doctrine of Virtue because the duties also indicate what kinds of attitudes, dispositions and feelings are morally virtuous or vicious.

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  Attitude, Feelings, Doctrine

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• Kant's description of most ethical duties reads more like a description of moral virtues and vices. Once we see this, we see that Kantian ethics is indeed a kind of virtue ethics, and that it does not "divide the heart from the head" (to anticipate one of your later questions) but instead recognizes the deep truth that reason and emotion are not opposites.

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  Heart, Reason And Emotion, Opposites

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