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• Title: Book: PoF: Introduction by Michael Wilson
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  • things and beings that are not seen as well as those that are. Writing
  • plea that “I cannot help being what I am!” If we would really
  • help itself become what it wants to be — a free being. This cannot
  • subsequent chapters without being troubled by ambiguous terms.
  • limited to the personal field of the individual human being; it
  • starts at a level we would call mental; it leads the human being,
  • word does not refer to an actual concrete object that is being
  • immediately apprehends the reality of other spiritual beings.
  • being taken to mean a spring like a fountain or river-source, as in
• Title: Book: PoF: Author's Prefaces: Preface to the revised edition of 1918
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  • to prove that there is a view of the nature of man's being
• Title: Book: PoF: Author's Prefaces: Preface to the first edition, 1894; revised, 1918
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  • experience everything in the depths of its inner being. The
  • with the immature human being, the child, we do not
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter One: Conscious Human Action
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  • man in his thinking and acting a spiritually free being, or
  • of its nature, and I call that unfree, of which the being and
  • then mean being able to want without ground, without motive.
  • which would consist in being able to want what one does not want.
  • What distinguishes man from all other organic beings
  • applied to the actions of human beings. Modern science loves
  • human beings, in which between us and the action lies the
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Two: The Fundamental Desire for Knowledge
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  • the reason for the likeness. We observe a living being grow
  • whole being into two parts. We become conscious of our
  • beings. The universe appears to us in two opposite parts:
  • is a connecting link between it and us, and that we are beings
  • he cannot but think of this “I” as being on the side of the
  • taken something of her with us into our own being. This
  • our own being, to find there those elements which we saved
  • Investigation of our own being must give us the answer
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Three: Thinking in the service of Knowledge
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  • mine really proceeds from my own independent being, or
  • by that of observation and thinking, this being for man the
  • how the thing he is observing comes into being. He sees into
  • that a being with quite differently constructed sense organs
  • my own. Only if I were not myself the being doing the
  • activity of a being quite foreign to me, might I then say that
  • particular way, what the thinking of that being may be like
  • the same being with that which is active, right into all the
  • knows itself to be one and the same being with what is active,
  • that the nature of thinking necessarily implies its being
  • in being carried out, does not appear to the “I” as an
  • is being freshly lit by an unknown hand at every point where
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Four: The World as Percept
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  • follows from the simple fact that the growing human being
  • object which is being the cause, which I find in the shape of
  • We must now pass from thinking to the being that thinks;
  • being active. We regard the thing as object and ourselves as
  • own activity, it makes its own essential being, as subject,
  • as a thinking being is thus not merely subjective. Rather is it
  • We must imagine that a being with fully developed human
  • world would then appear to this being as nothing but a mere
  • system that human beings happen to look at them from the
  • without a mind, that their being is to be perceived or known;
  • On this view, when we take away the fact of its being
  • perceive them, then the former, being bound up with them,
  • happens to a percept while it is being perceived, and we
  • time being aware only of this object. To this the percept of
  • beings other than God and human spirits. What we call the
  • knowledge which goes beyond mental pictures as being open
  • far from being grouped into what I perceive as “things”.
  • are accepted without proof as being valid.
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Five: The Act of Knowing the World
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  • the ground floor collapses while the first floor is being built, then the
  • of a thing as being behind my mental picture, then thought is again nothing
  • for human beings, in other words, that it is as good as non-existent since
  • a perceiving subject, but the concept appears only when a human being
  • corresponding concepts, but to our mental organization. Our whole being
  • Man is a limited being. First of all, he is a being among other beings. His
  • single being among other beings.
  • The all important thing now is to determine how the being that we ourselves
  • am a two-sided being. I am enclosed within the sphere which I perceive as
  • stamp in each separate human being only because it comes to be related to
  • (and also perceive), we are single beings; in so far as we think, we are the
  • all-one being that pervades everything. This is the deeper meaning of our
  • two-sided nature: We see coming into being in us a force complete and absolute
  • we must explore the region which lies outside our own being with the help of
  • the fundamental desire for knowledge in us. Beings without thinking do not
  • for them. These other things remain external to such beings. But in thinking
  • beings the concept rises up when they confront the external thing. It is
  • interpose themselves between his own being and a supposedly real world,
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Six: Human Individuality
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  • our being to which reference has already been made. Thinking
  • being.
  • merely thinking and perceiving beings, our whole life would
  • objects, that we live as individual beings whose existence is
  • universal world process and being our own individual selves.
  • of the separate being, of the quite definite single personality,
  • from universal being. A true individuality will be the one who
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Seven: Are There Limits to Knowledge?
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  • thing-in-itself) lies beyond our consciousness in a being-in-itself of
  • through ideas is not regarded by the naïve mind as being real
  • being analogous to that of sense-perceptible objects. Just
  • the individual and is the reason why a new being which
  • sense realities, and finally the naïve man's Divine Being.
  • This Divine Being is thought of as acting in a manner exactly
  • true knowledge. For beings with a different perceptual
  • a form specific for such beings. The question concerning the
  • object. A being with fewer senses than man will perceive
  • perceiving being. The object is not absolute, but merely
  • A differently constituted being would have a differently
  • human being? The fact that people can understand and get
  • being, but also that the perceptual picture which has been
  • to reach reality be confused with being confronted by a
  • organization of the cognizing being. If one does not lose
  • Man's being, quite concretely, is determined not only by
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Eight: The Factors of Life
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  • beings. This determination of our life would remain a purely
  • beings who merely cognize or know.
  • Therefore we are not beings with a merely conceptual
  • being intuitively aware of the will element, cannot even be
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Nine: The Idea of Freedom
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  • web of being. Indeed, we can even say that if we would grasp the essential
  • shares henceforth in thinking's spiritual being.)
  • intention of serving the general good. What determines me as a moral being
  • Only a being other than myself could distinguish me from others by the
  • ideal part of my individual being; every other part of an action,
  • understood idea of freedom comes to realization in the being of man will be
  • every individual being knows of others through individual observation alone.
  • do with actual human beings, from whom we can only hope for morality if they
  • being in which the free man finds expression.
  • recognized the connection between idea and percept. But with the human being
  • his own self; his true concept as a moral being (free spirit) is not
  • inborn concept (the law of its being and doing), but in external objects
  • law inherent in it; the human being remains in his incomplete state unless he
  • himself through his own power. Nature makes of man merely a natural being;
  • society makes of him a law-abiding being; only he himself can make of
  • being. Human individuals, with the moral ideas belonging to their nature,
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Ten: Freedom - Philosophy and Monism
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  • powers are human beings as weak as himself, seeks guidance
  • from a higher power, from a Divine Being, whom he endows,
  • Being as communicating to him the conceptual content of his
  • (moral idea) is separated from every being other than oneself
  • and is thought of, hypothetically, as being an absolute
  • as a spiritual being. In this case he will also seek the impulse
  • expression of this being itself, which has its own special
  • decisions of the absolute being and then carry them out.
  • but the being itself, that is, the extra-human entity. Man
  • shall do as this being wills.
  • who imagines this being itself as a Godhead whose very existence
  • is a life of suffering, believes that this Divine Being has
  • Being-in-itself, as something spiritual in which man has no
  • authority of a perceptible being or of one conceived on the
  • analogy of a perceptible being, or eventually to the authority of the
  • as being determined, mechanically or morally, by a
  • “Being-in-itself”.
  • “Beings-in-themselves”. According to the monistic view, man may
  • the will of some being outside him in the world that man
  • resolves and intentions, not those of another being. Monism
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• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Eleven: World Purpose and Life Purpose
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  • Ideas are realized purposefully only by human beings.
  • law of its being. It is just because the idea is not external to
  • denies that natural beings are determined from without
  • mind of a world creator) who must admit that such beings
  • Being has realized its purposes. For monism, with the rejection
  • of an absolute cosmic Being — never experienced but
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Twelve: Moral Imagination
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  • who merely spin out moral rules without being able to condense
  • moral being, I am an individual and have laws of my very
  • our earth when a being could have followed with his own
  • being could have watched the development of the solar
  • is thought of as being directly determined only by the
  • out of the earlier ones. As a moral being, the individual
  • standard thus cannot start, like a law of nature, by being
  • known, but only by being created. Only when it is there, can
  • man as an organic being, ought to be capable of being
  • as a being that is moral in a definite sense. But on no account
  • the interference of an extra-mundane Being who produces
  • of will is completely accounted for by being traced back to a
  • carry out the motives which another being has implanted
  • in me. A free being is one who can want what he himself
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Thirteen: The Value of Life
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  • of the world not as an all-wise and all-beneficent being, but as blind urge
  • credit his primal Being with the creation of the world only if he allows the
  • pain in the world to serve a wise world-purpose. The pain of created beings
  • whole is identical with the life of God. An all-wise Being can, however, see
  • and then to get rid of it altogether.” Human beings are integral parts of
  • Man has to permeate his whole being with the recognition that the pursuit of
  • in any case wrong to take desiring or striving (will) as being in itself the
  • experienced without being the consequence of desire. Illness is pain not
  • himself from two sources of error that may affect his judgment. Being
  • by the ceaseless, devoted labour of human beings. But as long as men still
  • his stead. And since within every being it is God who actually bears all
  • been attained. The enjoyment that comes with being satisfied consists
  • connected with a particular instinct (for example, hunger) as being
  • kind is being aimed at, fulfillment brings the pleasure even when, along with
  • because from the very nature of his being he wants to fulfill them,
  • task,” it hits on the very thing that man, in his own being, wants.
  • depends on his desire for them being intense enough to overcome pain and
  • content of his own being, and their realization will bring him a joy
  • own being. What is achieved has its value because it has been wanted. If we
  • within the sphere of his own being. Moral action consists not in the
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• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Fourteen: Individuality and Genus
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  • This being so, is individuality possible at all? Can we
  • medium in which to express his own individual being. He
  • being. If we seek in the generic laws the reasons for an
  • expression of this being, we seek in vain. We are concerned
  • It is impossible to understand a human being completely
  • being is itself in great need of improvement.
  • beings whose activity is based on free self-determination.
  • particular being and not stop short at those characteristics
  • that are typical. In this sense every single human being is a
  • greater or lesser sphere of his being, both from the generic
  • instincts acquire ethical value through being taken up into
• Title: Book: PoF: Ultimate Questions: The Consequences of Monism
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  • disciplined thinking was that a primordial being had built
  • for our actions lay in the will of such a being. What was not
  • forth. Dualism defines the divine primordial Being as that
  • another human being are in substance mine also, and I
  • Being which pervades all men. To live in reality, filled
  • through abstract inference is nothing but a human being
  • a primordial Being made up of idea and will, is but a compound
  • perception. A primordial world being for which we invent
  • (transcendental) primordial Being and make them his own,
• Title: Book: PoF: Appendix Added to the new edition, 1918
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  • being, of which I have only a representative in my consciousness.
  • In it also, however, lies the being of my fellow man.
  • fellow man corresponds to a reality in his being which is
  • being which is said to be unconscious; and in this way something
  • being added hypothetically, since one believes that otherwise
  • this extinguishing compels me as a thinking being to extinguish
  • enough — to regard other people too as being present solely