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• Title: Book: PoF: Introduction by Michael Wilson
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  • this insight into his perception of nature. Since no existing philosophical
  • think that “spirit” was merely a concept existing in the human mind,
  • summed up the ideas he had formed to deal with the riddles of existence that
  • does not exist mainly to provide a philosophical
  • since limits to knowledge exist only in so far as we fail to awaken
  • each passage and then compare it with the existing one, choosing
  • a word existed. The German ending -heit implied an inner condition or
  • opens out to embrace the eternal truths of existence. The English
• Title: Book: PoF: Author's Prefaces: Preface to the revised edition of 1918
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  • exist.
• Title: Book: PoF: Author's Prefaces: Preface to the first edition, 1894; revised, 1918
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  • of concepts if one would experience every aspect of existence.
  • are here trying to achieve. A similar relationship exists in the
  • curiosity did it not strive to raise the value of existence for the
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter One: Conscious Human Action
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  • I call a thing free which exists and acts from the pure necessity
  • exists only through the necessity of his own nature. Similarly,
  • determined by external causes to exist and to act in a fixed and
  • determined by external causes to exist and to act in a fixed and
  • and therefore thought to be non-existent. The volition, it is
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Two: The Fundamental Desire for Knowledge
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  • modes of existence, seeing that they are never found apart.
  • not simply satisfied with itself and content just to exist? The
  • denies to matter all independent existence and regards it
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Three: Thinking in the service of Knowledge
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  • for I myself give it its certain existence; and that is my
  • certain: that it exists in the sense that I myself bring it forth.
  • make of a thing is that it is, that it exists. How this existence
  • can be said to exist. An experienced event may be a set of
  • else. In short, I am unable to say in what sense it exists. I
  • ground only when I find an object which exists in a sense
  • such an object in that I think, for I give to my existence the
  • From here I can go on to ask whether other things exist in
  • thought processes. But all these questions cease to exist
  • the Nature that already exists we should have to borrow or
  • Nature that does not yet exist.
  • what already exists. How does it help us to start with
  • concepts, we cannot start from the elements of existence
  • illusion arise that the observed thinking exists in its own
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Four: The World as Percept
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  • to his immediate apprehension, as things having an existence
  • all this actually exists and happens just as he observes it. To
  • for our act of perceiving it as an object, it would not exist
  • longer able to believe in the existence of a world without a
  • by me, or do not exist in my mind or that of any other created
  • spirit, they must either have no existence at all, or else subsist
  • Extension, form, and motion exist as little as color and
  • To the objection that there must be things that exist apart
  • so on, have no existence except within the act of perceiving,
  • of my perceptions exist only through me, and indeed only
  • mental picturing. What I take to be a table no longer exists,
  • “world” exists only in these spirits. What the naïve
  • non-existent. This theory is confronted by the now predominant
  • cannot exist beyond these mental pictures, but because it
  • exist also outside our consciousness. Physics, physiology, and
  • longer be found of what exists outside me and originally
  • exist for us had we no sense organs. No eye — no color.
  • existing outside him, in space.
  • that the percept, just as I perceive it, had objective existence.
  • has objective existence. As soon as the idealist realizes that
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• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Five: The Act of Knowing the World
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  • their causes which transcend his consciousness and exist independently of
  • existence at all, then his search for knowledge through the medium of mental
  • pictures is directed solely toward this existence. His interest skips over
  • for human beings, in other words, that it is as good as non-existent since
  • mental picture of our I. Whoever denies that things exist, or at least that
  • we can know anything of them, must also deny the existence, or at least the
  • of the details within the picture. If he allows for the existence of a real
  • linked with another, but what takes place in the independently existing
  • illusionism who denies altogether the existence of an Ego-in-itself behind
  • given to me, exists continuously before and after my forming a mental
  • something belonging to the things but as existing only in the human head.
  • leaf and blossom? You say the leaves and blossoms exist quite apart from
  • thing. It would have to ascribe to the concept an existence indivisibly
  • exists only from the moment that I as spectator confront the things. Which
  • existence belongs to space and time. Thus, only a limited part of the total
  • If our existence were so linked up with the things that every occurrence in
  • between ourselves and the things would not exist. But then there would be
  • a higher sphere, defines my limited existence. Our thinking is not individual
  • the periphery, and find that our own existence is bounded by definite limits,
  • thinking, which projects into us from the universal world existence.
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• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Six: Human Individuality
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  • out that this difficulty does not really exist. We certainly
  • same as those which exist outside. Therefore I really am the
  • would not exist at all? Those who, from the fact that an
  • objects, that we live as individual beings whose existence is
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Seven: Are There Limits to Knowledge?
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  • It divides the whole of existence into two spheres,
  • Every kind of existence that is assumed outside the realm of percept
  • that such a content exists, but not what it is that exists. In
  • could come into existence through their interaction.”
  • explanation. They exist and act on one another according to
  • laws which can be discovered through thinking. They exist
  • proof of their reality. “Nothing exists that cannot be perceived”
  • can be perceived exists.” The best evidence for this assertion
  • But it is not only with reference to the existence of things
  • of existence, which was thought to be analogous to that of
  • exist to provide ideal counterparts of percepts, and have no
  • to percepts, the existence of something ideal. It must
  • doing so, it justifies itself by conceiving their existence as
  • existence (perceptible existence) to a sphere where the only
  • means of making any assertion about such existence, namely,
  • to acknowledge that the mode of existence which thinking
  • no other mode of existence for us than that of concepts. If
  • percept of the subject, there must also exist a real relationship
  • limits of knowledge exists only for naïve and metaphysical
  • what exists outside the subject is something absolute,
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• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Eight: The Factors of Life
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  • ideal existence. Through it we feel ourselves to be thinking
  • a feeling of existence; and it is only in the course of our
  • own existence. However, what for us appears only later, is
  • presented with existence directly, in knowledge only
  • mode of existence in which the will appears within the self
  • demand a principle of existence which is real, in addition to a
  • of existence where it cannot be experienced directly, as it
  • a hypothetical principle for whose real existence the sole
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Nine: The Idea of Freedom
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  • the feeling itself does not yet exist in the moment of action; it has first
  • announces itself clearly even in the least perfect form of its existence. If
  • it is not so. The sum total of his existence is not fully determined without
  • himself to expression in his outward existence. Hence not only man's
  • the actual realization of the free spirit. Every existing thing has its
  • be the only form in which a man can exist. It sees in the free spirit only
  • will try to put them into the place of the existing ones; if he finds the
  • existing ones justified, he will act in accordance with them as if they were
  • We must not coin the formula: Man exists only in order to realize a moral
  • as horns do not exist for the sake of butting, but butting through the
  • presence of horns, so man does not exist for the sake of morality, but
  • life. State and society exist only because they have arisen as a necessary
  • he led an isolated existence outside human society. Indeed, this is just why
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Ten: Freedom - Philosophy and Monism
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  • have become independently existing standards. There they
  • metaphysical entities existing in their own right. They are
  • who imagines this being itself as a Godhead whose very existence
  • be led towards its goal. ... True existence is the incarnation
  • recognition of this actually existing
  • merely material existence and that therefore he is no
  • which are applicable only to material existence. Anyone who
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Eleven: World Purpose and Life Purpose
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  • really exists only if, in contrast to the relationship
  • factor of the effect simply does not exist prior to the perceptual
  • existence at the time when the root originates.
  • For a purposeful connection to exist, it is not only
  • idea floating in the air or existing outside the creature in the
  • with that of subjective human action. For purpose to exist, it
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Twelve: Moral Imagination
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  • existing percepts and gives them a new form. In order to be
  • concepts for the existing world than to evolve productively,
  • out of their imagination, the not-yet-existing actions of the
  • cannot exist.
  • exists, and their causes must be sought in the world, that is,
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Thirteen: The Value of Life
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  • best that could conceivably exist, and that to live and to act in it is a
  • blessing of untold value. Everything that exists displays harmonious and
  • pain outweighs pleasure, sorrow outweighs joy. Existence is a burden, and
  • non-existence would in all circumstances be preferable to existence.
  • content is gone from our lives; an infinite boredom pervades our existence.
  • his goal only in release from suffering, and, since all existence is
  • suffering, in release from existence. To transform existence into the far
  • better state of non-existence is the purpose of all creation. The course of
  • the annihilation of all existence. The moral life of men, therefore, will
  • consist in taking part in the annihilation of existence. God has created the
  • whose existence he had not the faintest idea, this fills him with pleasure
  • that he says, “Pain and pleasure exist only in so far as they are
  • questions of sheer existence or that are already finally settled by
  • sum total of pain that life is no joy and non-existence preferable to
  • existence.
  • then annihilation of existence, and salvation through non-existence, would
  • must be done by another. Somebody else must bear the torment of existence in
  • Now if all the existing hunger in the world could be satisfied, we should
  • of life thus produced must perish in pain in the struggle for existence.
  • corresponding quantity of pleasure exists, even though in the desiring
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• Title: Book: PoF: Ultimate Questions: The Consequences of Monism
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  • the cosmos there exists a real connection which is broken
  • universe as something existing on its own, because we do
  • whole as if it were actually an independently existing thing,
  • all separate existence turns out to be mere illusion due to
  • perceiving. Man can find his full and complete existence in
  • perceiving and integrates our individual existence into the
  • After all, the tree that one perceives has no existence by
  • itself, in isolation. It exists only as a part of the immense
  • machinery of nature, and can only exist in real connection
  • real existence) will not be denied by even the most orthodox
  • of its existence within itself. They do not realize that through
  • ground of existence whose counsels he might investigate in
• Title: Book: PoF: Appendix Added to the new edition, 1918
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  • absurdity that other people, too, exist only within my
  • regards perceived phenomena as real things existing outside
  • existence? If the answer is “continuous”, then one
  • contents as existing only as long as he is looking at the things,