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• Title: Book: PoF: Introduction by Michael Wilson
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  • took its start from a direct experience of the spiritual nature of
  • writings on nature. In Goethe he recognized one
  • who had been able to perceive the spiritual in nature, even though he
  • this insight into his perception of nature. Since no existing philosophical
  • mainly materialistic. By starting from the spiritual nature of thinking,
  • through an insight into the nature of man, his initiative bearing
  • physics. But this would be to misunderstand the nature of philosophy.
  • intellect in dealing with the forces of nature; it is wrong if it postulates
  • relevant. Confusion concerning the nature of perception is widespread,
  • as exact and precise as our current science of nature would be.
  • But even if one cannot communicate the nature of an
  • In the later part of the book, when discussing the nature of a
  • creative ideas behind the phenomena of nature. In these later
  • chosen “driving force” as best expressing the dynamic nature of
  • a description of the nature of man and his relation to the spiritual
• Title: Book: PoF: Author's Prefaces: Preface to the revised edition of 1918
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  • nature of man such as will give us a foundation for everything
  • 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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  • Our age can only accept truth from the depths of human nature. Of
  • the Real Nature of the Newest Philosophy. An
  • nature of man.
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter One: Conscious Human Action
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  • consistent with the laws working in nature, of which man,
  • of its nature, and I call that unfree, of which the being and
  • exists only through the necessity of his own nature. Similarly,
  • solely from the necessity of his nature that he cognizes all. You
  • own nature, because it requires to be defined by the thrust of
  • more clear that the question of the nature of human action
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Two: The Fundamental Desire for Knowledge
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  • which is deeply rooted in human nature. Man is not organized
  • world, of its own accord, gives him. Nature has endowed us
  • motion? Every glance at Nature evokes in us a multitude of
  • satisfied with what Nature spreads out before our senses.
  • riddle of his own nature.
  • matter, seeing that the essential nature of matter is quite
  • does matter come to think about its own nature? Why is it
  • theory to solve the riddle of his own human nature, he finds
  • own nature as exclusively spiritual. In what it achieves
  • own essential nature, to acknowledge nothing of spirit except
  • bosom of Nature and contrast ourselves as “I” with the
  • essay Nature, although his manner may at first sight be considered
  • (Nature) we are strangers to her. Ceaselessly she speaks to
  • from Nature, it is none the less true that we feel we are in her
  • ourselves away from Nature, but we must none the less have
  • element of Nature in us we must seek out, and then we shall
  • utterly alien to Nature, and then attempts somehow to hitch
  • it on to Nature. No wonder that it cannot find the connecting
  • link. We can find Nature outside us only if we have first
  • Nature and spirit. Rather shall we probe into the depths of
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• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Three: Thinking in the service of Knowledge
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  • objects or events. The peculiar nature of thinking lies just
  • This is just the peculiar nature of thinking, that the
  • says, “To know Nature means to create Nature.”
  • If we take these words of this bold Nature-philosopher
  • gaining knowledge of Nature. For Nature is there already,
  • the Nature that already exists we should have to borrow or
  • crib the fundamental principles for the Nature we want to
  • precede the creating, would however mean knowing Nature,
  • creation were to take place. The only kind of Nature we
  • Nature that does not yet exist.
  • What is impossible for us with regard to Nature, namely,
  • that the nature of thinking necessarily implies its being
  • Indeed, we must say that owing to the very nature of thinking
  • everything that is relevant to a judgment about the nature of
  • thinking only leads him away from its real nature. Unprejudiced
  • belonging to the nature of thinking except what is found in
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Four: The World as Percept
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  • and self-determined nature of thinking cannot,
  • thinking. For thinking, by its very nature, goes beyond what
  • It is just this which constitutes the double nature of man.
  • the subjective nature of the content of my percepts, but he
  • man calls the outer world, or corporeal nature, is for
  • nature.
  • the same nature as those which naïve realism assumes to
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Five: The Act of Knowing the World
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  • indirectly about the nature of things by drawing conclusions from the
  • the nature of the things themselves. The gap between perceiving and thinking
  • two-sided nature: We see coming into being in us a force complete and absolute
  • other percepts. If we want to know their real nature, we can do so
  • offers of the subjective nature of perceptions collapses. But insight into
  • absolute nature of thinking, but relies on the argument of naïve
  • elastic medium, which by their very nature have not the slightest in common
  • own nature, is conceived in exactly the same way as is the known thing in the
  • overcome through the recognition of the true nature of thinking.
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Six: Human Individuality
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  • Thinking and feeling correspond to the two-fold nature of
  • The farther we ascend into the universal nature of thinking
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Seven: Are There Limits to Knowledge?
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  • presents itself to us, before it has taken on its true nature
  • According to our line of argument, it is due to the nature of
  • The self-contained nature of what can be experienced
  • nature. The tulip I see is real today; in a year it will have
  • through thinking. The laws of nature are just such connections.
  • A law of nature is in fact nothing but the conceptual
  • answer the questions put by our own nature.
  • nature of this reality he thinks he can determine by inductive
  • the essential nature of thinking, that is, to work one's way
  • the very nature of things, by no other process of knowledge
  • human nature it is a relevant fact that in physics one has to
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Eight: The Factors of Life
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  • The difficulty of grasping the essential nature of thinking
  • strongly marked shadow of its real nature — warm, luminous,
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Nine: The Idea of Freedom
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  • together lies in the very nature of things.
  • of this relationship is able to throw light on its nature. A proper
  • nature of spirit in the form in which it presents itself most
  • on the essential nature of thinking. At first sight this seems
  • organization contributes nothing to the essential nature of thinking, but
  • if we observe the essential nature of thinking without prejudice, shall we
  • attribute any share in that nature to the traces in the physical organism
  • no part in the essential nature of thinking, what is the significance
  • of this organization within the whole nature of man? Now, what happens in this
  • nature, certainly contains the real I or ego, but it does not contain the
  • nature and situation in life. My characterological disposition is determined
  • nature, there is also a moral label attached to them which for me, as a moral
  • of nature are related to a particular phenomenon. These laws, however, are
  • no compulsion, neither the compulsion of nature which guides me by my
  • misapprehension of my argument, is this: If we want to understand the nature
  • difference in my animal nature; through my thinking, that is, by actively
  • irrespective of whether it is carried out under the compulsion of nature or
  • nature, no external laws would be able to implant it in us. It is only
  • expects to find it because it is inherent in human nature. I am not here
  • simply say that human nature must be driven to its actions as long as
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• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Ten: Freedom - Philosophy and Monism
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  • consider man as a finished product, disclosing his full nature
  • Monism knows that Nature does not send man forth from
  • human knowledge, is conditioned by human nature. And
  • essential nature reveals itself, then we shall be unable to see
  • logical contradiction between the universal nature of
  • cognitive ideas and the individual nature of moral ideas is
  • concept. It is a characteristic feature of the essential nature
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Eleven: World Purpose and Life Purpose
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  • about and from this he concludes that nature will do it in the
  • same way. In the connections of nature which are purely
  • nature, but not for purposes of nature. Purposes of nature are
  • As long as there are instincts in nature, it is folly to deny
  • formative principle of the totality of nature which unfolds and
  • the formations and developments of nature — a degree of plan
  • of purposefulness, such as nature exhibits in all her domains,
  • in nature. The purposefulness of the arrangement consists in
  • of nature. But he must not confuse this kind of lawfulness
  • concept, in fact the concept of the effect. But in nature we
  • connecting cause and effect. Causes are present in nature only
  • purposes in the world and in nature also falls away.
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Twelve: Moral Imagination
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  • laws of nature. We are dealing with natural science, not ethics.
  • and I shall live in accordance with nature if I apply the
  • mental pictures, the nature of both the proto-amniotes and
  • by nature: we alter something perceptible. The ethical
  • standard thus cannot start, like a law of nature, by being
  • measure a new form in nature by an old one and say that,
  • could the nature of a descendant species be deduced from
  • the nature of an ancestral one. However true it is that the
  • experienceable world. It cannot admit that the moral nature
  • nature; again, he cannot stop short at the organic functions
  • cannot make this observation of the twofold nature of a free
  • nature. Man is free to the extent that he is able to realize in
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Thirteen: The Value of Life
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  • nature from the outset. Only when fulfillment is seen to be impossible does
  • If men by nature were to strive after pleasure but were unable to reach it,
  • Modern science holds the view that nature produces more life than it can
  • nature. The greater the number of creatures in proportion to those which are
  • extend his assertion to nature outside man as well, he can point to the
  • only when the pleasure is greater than the pain; for by nature he will strive
  • its very nature, does not allow itself to be influenced by this knowledge.
  • because from the very nature of his being he wants to fulfill them,
  • once he has properly recognized their nature. Pessimistic ethics declares
  • discard his human nature, before he can be moral. Morality lies in striving
  • for a goal that one recognizes as justified; it is human nature to pursue it
  • he will want to do if he develops the true nature of man to the full.
  • moral ideas. They must be given to him. Physical nature sees to it that he
  • of human nature. Those who hold that moral ideals are attainable only if man
  • the instincts of their half-developed natures as the fullest expression of
  • developed human being does not hold good for half-developed human natures.
  • Anyone who still needs to be educated to the point where his moral nature
  • within the essential nature of a mature human being. My intention was to
  • which comes to him as a gift of grace on the part of Nature or of the
  • will in human nature must be sustained by intuitive thinking; at the same
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• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Fourteen: Individuality and Genus
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  • characteristic features that are inherent in the nature of the
  • uses as a foundation the characteristics that nature has given
  • with their nature. To all who fear an upheaval of our
  • As regards that part of his nature where a man is not able
  • the whole organism of nature and spirit. In this respect he
• Title: Book: PoF: Ultimate Questions: The Consequences of Monism
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  • of observation, that is, in that part of human nature which is
  • machinery of nature, and can only exist in real connection
  • with nature. An abstract concept taken by itself has as little
  • his natural instincts, for which Mother Nature has provided,
  • see that it is in his nature to progress along the road towards
  • observation of the ethical nature of man cannot, by itself,
  • this nature of thinking by experiencing it amounts to a
• Title: Book: PoF: Appendix Added to the new edition, 1918
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  • trying to get clear about the nature of man and his relationship