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• Title: Book: PoF: Cover Sheet
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• Title: Book: PoF: Contents
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• Title: Book: PoF: Introduction by Michael Wilson
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  • quite unable to say whether the real world is the familiar world of their
  • “fantasy” suggests something altogether too far from reality,
  • It was the late Friedrich Geuter who showed me, together with
• Title: Book: PoF: Author's Prefaces: Preface to the revised edition of 1918
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  • else that comes to meet us — whether through life
  • again I have asked myself whether I ought not, at this point
• Title: Book: PoF: Author's Prefaces: Preface to the first edition, 1894; revised, 1918
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  • it here as an appendix. I do not want to omit it altogether,
  • this preface (in the first edition) have been altogether omitted
  • convinced that one must raise oneself into the ethereal realm
  • what freedom is, and whether we do, or can, participate in
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter One: Conscious Human Action
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  • is it justifiable to lump together actions of this kind with
  • opponents of freedom never ask themselves whether a
  • question is just whether reason, purposes, and decisions
  • How should it matter to me whether I can do a thing or not,
  • is not whether I can do a thing or not when a motive has worked
  • upon me, but whether there are any motives except such as
  • whether I can also do it. And if, through my character, or
  • The question is not whether I can carry out a decision once
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Two: The Fundamental Desire for Knowledge
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  • and matter are indissolubly bound together so that there is
  • we must include the senses themselves together with the brain
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Three: Thinking in the service of Knowledge
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  • We shall have to consider later whether this activity of
  • whether those modern physiologists are right who say that
  • which are given independently of us. Whether this activity
  • is really ours or whether we perform it according to an
  • the concepts together with the objects. That I am myself
  • Whether thinking or something else is the chief factor in the
  • but another one. Whether, for this purpose, I make observations
  • whether I have the right concepts of lightning and thunder.
  • me. Whether they be truth, or illusion, or dream, I know
  • From here I can go on to ask whether other things exist in
  • whether we can also grasp anything else through it.
  • we do not first know whether thinking is in fact able to give
  • but we must start from the present moment and see whether
  • certainty whether our thinking is right or wrong, and thus
  • just as sensible to doubt whether a tree is in itself right or
  • whether thinking is correctly applied, just as I can doubt
  • whether a certain tree supplies wood adapted to the making
  • task of this book. I can understand anyone doubting whether,
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Four: The World as Percept
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  • object and the ideal counterpart as belonging together.
  • which are based on single objects merge together into a
  • away from me, seem smaller and nearer together than those
  • percepts may easily lead us to doubt whether there is any
  • of altogether. It has been said that we perceive not objects
  • of light results, irrespective of whether the stimulation
  • is due to what we call light, or whether mechanical pressure
  • But now I observe that it disappears together with my
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Five: The Act of Knowing the World
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  • the dream; into a dream which hangs together in a dream of itself.”
  • dream, it is immaterial whether he postulates nothing more behind this dream
  • or whether he relates his mental pictures to actual things. In both cases
  • illusionism who denies altogether the existence of an Ego-in-itself behind
  • to percept. It makes no difference whether or no the percept, in the shape
  • but stands altogether aloof from them and contemplates them. The picture
  • It is quite immaterial for the content of this concept whether it is grasped
  • synthesis of percept and concept. Only percept and concept together constitute
  • world of our intuitions. By thinking we fit together again into one piece
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Six: Human Individuality
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  • are not the external things, but we belong together with them
  • these are entities that belong together, I can as world
  • the moment of observation through the fitting together of
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Seven: Are There Limits to Knowledge?
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  • unreal thought-picture which the soul has put together out
  • substance, called ether, or to other such things. For example,
  • altogether different, senses. Anyone who chooses to indulge
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Eight: The Factors of Life
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• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Nine: The Idea of Freedom
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  • together lies in the very nature of things.
  • pictures and feelings. Whether a mental picture which enters my mind at this
  • especially by my life of feeling. Whether I shall make a particular mental
  • picture or concept into a motive of action or not, will depend on whether it
  • point of an action, I enter upon the act of will irrespective of whether I
  • have had the concept beforehand or whether it only enters my consciousness
  • immediately before the action, that is, irrespective of whether it was
  • always asks whether in the given case this or that principle is the more
  • whether my action is good or bad; I carry it out because I love it. My
  • whether I judge it to be good or evil. Only in the former case should I
  • irrespective of whether it is carried out under the compulsion of nature or
  • it is not free. Whether his unfreedom is forced on him by physical
  • means or by moral laws, whether man is unfree because he follows his unlimited
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Ten: Freedom - Philosophy and Monism
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  • moral life, again in a perceptible way — whether it be, for
  • whether man as such is free or not, to be of no consequence.
  • It sees in man a developing being, and asks whether, in the
  • of view put forward in this book. The point is not whether
  • materialist; but the point is whether he develops concepts
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Eleven: World Purpose and Life Purpose
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  • (and it does not matter, in this context, whether it be by an
  • if I connect its parts together in a way that is not given
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Twelve: Moral Imagination
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  • world ether during that infinitely long time. That with such
  • characterizing of an action, that is, whether it is a free one,
  • say I can want as I will is an empty tautology.” Whether I
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Thirteen: The Value of Life
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  • observation of life he hopes to discover whether pleasure or pain
  • and then to get rid of it altogether.” Human beings are integral parts of
  • Hence, if we set out to enquire whether the balance is on the side of
  • whether the sum of my disagreeable feelings together with my agreeable
  • to determine clearly whether, up to the moment of his enquiry, there has
  • acclamations of the multitude, irrespective of whether subsequently he
  • whether they are based on illusions or not. Whoever ascribes a lesser value
  • whether to carry on the business of life or not, one will first demand to be
  • whether the former can be measured by the latter. In order not to arouse the
  • distributed over the whole of his life together with all the demands made by
  • is not whether the pleasure to be gained is greater than the pain, but
  • whether the desire for the goal is greater than the hindering effect of the
  • toilsome ascent and descent; but I reflect whether, after having overcome
  • together lead to a result. Therefore the question is not at all whether
  • there is a surplus of pleasure or of pain, but whether the will for pleasure
  • from that of the bad ones but by assessing whether the good ones still have
  • calculation can be done at all depends on whether the things to be
  • least approximately, with regard to their magnitudes. We know whether we
  • value of our activity dependent on whether pleasure or pain shows a surplus
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• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Fourteen: Individuality and Genus
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  • general. As long as men continue to debate whether a woman
• Title: Book: PoF: Ultimate Questions: The Consequences of Monism
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  • perceptual content, together with which it forms something
  • he must give up action altogether, or else he must act for
• Title: Book: PoF: Appendix Added to the new edition, 1918
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  • otherwise occur. If one were to pass by such problems altogether,
  • When two people are alone together in a room, how many distinct
  • When two people are alone together in a room, how
• Title: Book: PoF: Translator's Note
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