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• Title: Book: PoF: Introduction by Michael Wilson
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  • those characteristics of thought and feeling that make us individual,
  • characterize all possible levels of action from the purely instinctive
• Title: Book: PoF: Author's Prefaces: Preface to the revised edition of 1918
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  • characterize the main ideas of the book. At the original writing I
• Title: Book: PoF: Author's Prefaces: Preface to the first edition, 1894; revised, 1918
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  • I am under no illusion about these characteristics of my
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter One: Conscious Human Action
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  • character remains untouched by this problem.
  • on two chief factors, the motives and the character.
  • action only if his character is such that this mental picture
  • with his character, he must first adopt as a motive a mental
  • of our characterological disposition, that is, we are anything
  • whether I can also do it. And if, through my character, or
  • characteristic stamp.
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Two: The Fundamental Desire for Knowledge
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  • expresses a characteristic feature
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Three: Thinking in the service of Knowledge
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  • thing that “it gives me a feeling of pleasure,” I characterize
  • characterized above, in which something that is always
  • it is our own creation do we know the characteristic features
  • is another characteristic feature of thinking. When we make
  • But this is quite irrelevant to the characterization of thinking
  • the unique character we have here described.
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Four: The World as Percept
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  • another. In saying this we have in fact characterized this
  • The recognition of the subjective character of our
  • should also be able to determine what character it must
  • train of thought has in fact been characterized by
  • known as naïve realism, makes the mistake of characterizing
  • character of mental pictures by naïvely accepting the percepts
  • character.
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Five: The Act of Knowing the World
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  • and consequently do not detect their dream character. But as soon as we wake,
  • characteristics as the thing. It might be quite possible for a spirit to
  • character of our organization as already described. A thing cut off from
  • The enigmatic character of an object consists in its separateness. But this
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Six: Human Individuality
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  • reference to the percept as a characteristic feature, the concept
  • concept with its characteristic relation to the same object,
  • example or specimen of the concept, the more the character
  • character as if they had not been produced by a man of
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Seven: Are There Limits to Knowledge?
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  • This conclusion is characteristic of this whole trend of
  • of the characteristics common to all tulips.
  • Let us call the view which we have characterized above,
  • the quite specific way that is characteristic of the particular
  • This is an inference from a sum of effects to the character
  • character of our conclusion is, after all, determined only by
  • character of the thing-in-itself which underlies these facts.
  • percept. The character of the metaphysical thus obtained
  • metaphysics has a character determined by this basic method,
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Eight: The Factors of Life
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  • characterizes itself as subject only with the help of thinking.
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Nine: The Idea of Freedom
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  • driving force. The motive is a factor with the character of a concept or a
  • make-up the characterological disposition. The manner in which concept and
  • mental picture affects the characterological disposition of a man gives to
  • The characterological disposition is formed by the more or less permanent
  • nature and situation in life. My characterological disposition is determined
  • determines the aim or the purpose of my will; my characterological
  • will only if it meets with a suitable characterological disposition, that
  • influence my characterological disposition so that an act of will results.
  • this way. The main characteristic of instinctive life is the immediacy with
  • tact; that is, tact becomes his characterological disposition.
  • of their characterological disposition. The driving force in the will, in
  • characteristic of this level of life. The dearest account of this driving
  • sense as belonging to the characterological disposition. For what is here
  • the form of a concept or mental picture, acts on the characterological
  • but not the feeling itself, can act on my characterological disposition. For
  • Among the levels of characterological disposition, we have singled out as
  • coincide; that is, neither a predetermined characterological disposition nor
  • will to a certain degree of development and the unique character which the
  • proceeds from the idea within him. Indeed, the characteristic feature of
  • assert his own individuality? This objection is characteristic of a false
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• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Ten: Freedom - Philosophy and Monism
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  • characteristic features. The consciousness of freedom can
  • concept. It is a characteristic feature of the essential nature
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Twelve: Moral Imagination
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  • character of moral laws, at least in so far as they have
  • its characteristics, out of his concept of the proto-amniotic
  • characterizing of an action, that is, whether it is a free one,
  • the perfect form of human action has freedom as its characteristic
  • then he feels it to be free. In this characteristic of an action
  • that we have arrived at our characterization of action.
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Thirteen: The Value of Life
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  • beyond reach, this is the fundamental characteristic of all active will. For
  • ambitious, this fundamental feature of his character will make him see the
  • recognition of the illusory character of the objects of pleasure. The
  • pain, then the illusory character of the objects causing certain feelings of
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Fourteen: Individuality and Genus
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  • characteristics of the group to which he belongs, and he gives to
  • characteristics and functions, by the whole totality. A racial
  • characteristic features that are inherent in the nature of the
  • will behave, are determined by the character of the racial
  • uses as a foundation the characteristics that nature has given
  • man, too much of the general character of the other sex and
  • characteristics of the individual woman, but by the
  • Anyone who judges people according to generic characters
  • matter for academic study. The characteristics of race,
  • general characteristics of man what concrete aims the individual
  • particular being and not stop short at those characteristics
  • himself from the characteristics of the genus, so must the
  • characteristics of animal life and from domination by the
  • character of her sex, a woman is able to shape her life individually,
• Title: Book: PoF: Ultimate Questions: The Consequences of Monism
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  • Thus thinking is characterized as that factor through
  • nothing to characterize reality for what it is. Hence we must
  • character. Such a world of spiritual perception is discussed in