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• Title: Book: PoF: Introduction by Michael Wilson
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  • to T. E. Lawrence, “I can do what I want, but I cannot want
  • to me.” Both Lawrence and Hamerling leave out of account just
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter One: Conscious Human Action
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  • is he compelled by the iron necessity of purely natural law?
  • believe that the uniformity of natural law is broken in the
  • consistent with the laws working in nature, of which man,
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Two: The Fundamental Desire for Knowledge
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  • The thinker seeks the laws of phenomena, and strives to
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Five: The Act of Knowing the World
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  • law. If I examine the conditions under which the stone thrown by me moves,
  • obeying their laws; but at the same time, in quite a different way, namely
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Seven: Are There Limits to Knowledge?
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  • each of which has its own laws, and it leaves these two worlds
  • this separating out, a law of our subjectivity. If, however, we
  • laws which can be discovered through thinking. They exist
  • in indivisible unity with these laws. Our Egohood confronts
  • through thinking. The laws of nature are just such connections.
  • A law of nature is in fact nothing but the conceptual
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Nine: The Idea of Freedom
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  • reveals to me the connections of events or objects according to the laws of
  • (standards, laws) in so far as these result from the generalization of the
  • so much a science of moral laws as a natural history of morality. It is only
  • the laws obtained in this way that are related to human action as the laws
  • of nature are related to a particular phenomenon. These laws, however, are
  • Acting out of freedom does not exclude the moral laws; it includes them, but
  • dictated by such laws. Why should my action be of less service to the public
  • nature, no external laws would be able to implant it in us. It is only
  • obey some moral law, that is, if they regard their moral task as a duty and
  • means or by moral laws, whether man is unfree because he follows his unlimited
  • 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
  • society makes of him a law-abiding being; only he himself can make of
  • submission,” thou that “settest up a law ... before which all
  • no mere law, but awaitest what my moral love itself will recognize as law
  • because in the face of every merely imposed law it feels itself unfree.”
  • This is the contrast between a morality based on mere law and a morality
  • to go beyond the laws of his state as does the philistine himself, and
  • laws of the state, one and all, just like all other objective laws of
  • laws of morality are first of all established by definite men, and the laws
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• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Ten: Freedom - Philosophy and Monism
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  • naïve consciousness into the sphere where the moral laws
  • according to purely mechanical laws, as materialism would
  • moral laws appear to be dictated by the Absolute, and all
  • The moral laws which the metaphysician who works by
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Eleven: World Purpose and Life Purpose
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  • necessary to have an ideal, law-determined connection
  • between the later and the earlier, but the concept (law) of the
  • with the sole exception of human action. It looks for laws of
  • the limits of natural law, and which does not aim at a fool's
  • there are laws (ideas) which we discover through our thinking,
  • law of its being. It is just because the idea is not external to
  • by cause and law from within. I construct a machine purposefully
  • to a law, may, if he wish, apply the same term to the objects
  • of nature. But he must not confuse this kind of lawfulness
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Twelve: Moral Imagination
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  • certain actions. Laws take on the form of general concepts
  • them. Laws concerning what he ought to do must be given
  • form belongs to laws for inhibiting actions: Thou shalt not
  • steal! Thou shalt not commit adultery! These laws, too,
  • without violating the natural laws by which these are
  • laws of nature. We are dealing with natural science, not ethics.
  • character of moral laws, at least in so far as they have
  • on our part; we come upon its laws in the world ready-made
  • Moral laws, on the other hand, are first created by us. We
  • laws are not newly created at every moment, but are inherited.
  • be given, like the natural laws of the organism. But a later
  • not, as natural laws do, to specimens of a general type.
  • natural laws of my general type to my particular case; as a
  • moral being, I am an individual and have laws of my very
  • with natural law. In the organic world, evolution is
  • laws. The adherents of the theory of organic evolution ought
  • standard thus cannot start, like a law of nature, by being
  • continued without an interruption of natural law and without
  • particular specimen into harmony with its generic laws. But as
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Fourteen: Individuality and Genus
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  • being. If we seek in the generic laws the reasons for an
  • Determining the individual according to the laws of his genus
• Title: Book: PoF: Ultimate Questions: The Consequences of Monism
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  • the world upon logical laws, and, similarly, that the grounds
  • long as we think of the law and order that permeates and
  • the law and order connecting the percepts, then we have