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• Title: Book: PoF: Introduction by Michael Wilson
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  • “objective” world has led to the position where many scientists are
  • whose object was to “check certain words and phrases from
  • perceiving or the object perceived as an element of observation.
  • word does not refer to an actual concrete object that is being
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Two: The Fundamental Desire for Knowledge
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  • subject and object, now thinking and appearance.
  • objects and events which are perceived by the senses belong
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Three: Thinking in the service of Knowledge
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  • which stand in a certain relation to the objects and events
  • the concepts together with the objects. That I am myself
  • am no longer able to observe. An event or an object which is
  • connection with other events or objects. This connection
  • reality, subject and object, appearance and thing-in-itself,
  • object “horse” are two things which for us emerge apart
  • from each other. This object is accessible to us only by means
  • mere thinking to produce a corresponding object.
  • But thinking as an object of observation differs essentially
  • from all other objects. The observation of a table, or a tree,
  • occurs in me as soon as these objects appear upon the
  • Someone might object that what I have said about thinking
  • pleasure, the feeling is also kindled by the object, and it is
  • this object that I observe, but not the feeling of pleasure.
  • This objection, however, is based on an error. Pleasure does
  • not stand at all in the same relation to its object as the
  • my activity; whereas pleasure is produced in me by an object
  • object by a stone which falls on it. For observation, a pleasure
  • When I say of an observed object, “This is a rose,” I say
  • and feeling on a level as objects of observation. And the same
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• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Four: The World as Percept
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  • an ideal element is added to the object, and he considers the
  • object and the ideal counterpart as belonging together.
  • When the object disappears from his field of observation,
  • concept of the object. The more our range of experience is
  • which are based on single objects merge together into a
  • to the objects which surround him. Concepts are added to
  • object which is being the cause, which I find in the shape of
  • If one demands of a “strictly objective science” that it
  • being active. We regard the thing as object and ourselves as
  • observation, we have consciousness of objects; because we
  • into a thing, as object.
  • and contrast myself with objects. Therefore thinking must
  • lies beyond subject and object. It produces these two concepts
  • subject, refer a concept to an object, we must not regard this
  • something neither subjective nor objective, that transcends
  • the objects. But at the same time it separates me from
  • we have so far simply called the object of observation and
  • disconnected aggregate of objects of sensation: colors,
  • I shall apply the word “percept” to the immediate objects
  • not the process of observation but the object of observation
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• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Five: The Act of Knowing the World
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  • our attention is concentrated only on the object we are thinking about, but
  • very different picture of my object. If I watch the rosebud without
  • an object which is in a continual process of development. If I do not put
  • It would be a quite unobjective and fortuitous kind of opinion that declared
  • to the objects that they are given us at first without the
  • subject as such, this body is a mental picture like any other, an object
  • among objects; its movements and actions are so far known to him in
  • precisely the same way as the changes of all other perceived objects,
  • picture for intelligent consideration, as an object among objects and
  • not two things objectively known to be different, which the bond of
  • human body the “objectivity” of the will. He believes that in the
  • objects of equal value. None plays any greater part in the whole machinery
  • of our knowledge. An observed object of the world remains unintelligible to
  • and force, object and subject, etc. What appears to us in observation as
  • The enigmatic character of an object consists in its separateness. But this
  • temperature- and touch-percepts. This combination I call an object belonging
  • the way from the object to my sense organs. I can find movements in an
  • to thinking). The way objects as percepts are related to the subject as
  • concepts. Only if I could perceive how the percept object affects
  • confuses an ideal relation (that of the object to the subject) with a
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• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Six: Human Individuality
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  • my organism and an object external to me, it is by no means
  • necessary that something of the object should slip into me,
  • world creator, object and subject (percept and I) would
  • systematic change in an object is perceived by us as a process
  • And now we can see how real objects can be represented to us by
  • concept with its characteristic relation to the same object,
  • and thus we recognize the object again.
  • objects again when they disappear from his field of vision,
  • totality of all that is objective would be given in percept,
  • 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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  • between the perceptual object and the thing-in-itself, which
  • of object and subject, which has meaning only within the
  • concept, into four: (1) the object in itself; (2) the precept
  • which the subject has of the object; (3) the subject; (4) the
  • concept which relates the precept to the object in itself. The
  • relation between subject and object is a real one; the subject
  • is really (dynamically) influenced by the object. This real
  • from the object. The result of this response is said to be the
  • The object is said to have an objective (independent of the
  • subjective reality is referred by the subject to the object.
  • object out of the thing-in-itself, he conceives of as taking
  • concept to the object, takes place, according to him, within
  • of what is there prior to his consciousness. The objectively
  • comes about, and still more the objective relations between
  • conceptual representatives of the objectively real. The bond
  • objectively with the individual mind of each of us (as
  • insist on real connections between the objects besides the
  • The naïve man (naïve realist) regards the objects of external
  • these objects, and his eyes see them, is for him sufficient
  • unreal or “merely ideal”. What we add to objects by thinking
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• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Eight: The Factors of Life
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  • subject, or “I”, over against the objects. This something is
  • subjective side, as the percept is on the objective side. From
  • regards this kind of connection with the objects as the more
  • of the objects to itself as subject. In the will, the case is
  • to what is objective. Whatever there is in willing that is not a
  • purely ideal factor, is just as much mere object of perception
  • as is any object in the external world.
  • objection that to discern love in the activity of thinking is to
  • objection is but a confirmation of what we have been saying.
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Nine: The Idea of Freedom
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  • concept and percept is determined by thinking, indirectly and objectively,
  • is, on the subjective and objective factors of experience, on my inner
  • A superficial judgment might raise the following objection to these
  • intuition in a purely ideal way? This objection rests upon a confusion of
  • concept is not derived by the “I” from the object. The
  • reveals to me the connections of events or objects according to the laws of
  • live in me intuitively; it is bound up with my love for the objective
  • civilization. Only when I follow my love for my objective is it I myself who
  • My reply to this very obvious objection, which is nevertheless based on a
  • assert his own individuality? This objection is characteristic of a false
  • objectively united from the start with the percept-picture “man” needing
  • concept of his own self. In the objective world a dividing line is drawn by
  • inborn concept (the law of its being and doing), but in external objects
  • One might object: At every moment of a man's life there is a definite
  • of a free spirit, then I have two concepts for the same object.
  • Such an objection is one-sided. As object of perception I am subjected to
  • changes my action, as object of perception, is subjected.
  • The perceptual object “man” has in it the possibility of
  • becoming a complete plant. The plant transforms itself because of the objective
  • laws of the state, one and all, just like all other objective laws of
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• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Eleven: World Purpose and Life Purpose
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  • natural object, be it plant, animal or man, is not determined
  • the object, but works within it as its very essence, that we
  • thereby an object of perception with the idea corresponding
  • to it. Natural objects are also entities of this kind. Whoever
  • to a law, may, if he wish, apply the same term to the objects
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Twelve: Moral Imagination
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  • able to transform a definite object of perception, or a sum of
  • such objects, in accordance with a moral mental picture, one
  • In so far as knowledge of the objects within our sphere of
  • can become objects of knowledge only after they have been
  • it become an object of knowledge.
  • objects of observation is fully justified. For, although during
  • become objects of observation afterwards. And it is in this way
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Thirteen: The Value of Life
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  • critical examination and attempting to prove that the objects to which our
  • recognition of the illusory character of the objects of pleasure. The
  • through the objective sources of pleasure which lie in the self-conquest).
  • ground that they are attached to objects which turn out to have been
  • quality of pleasure, and this, in turn, on the value of the objects which
  • worthless object, resembles a merchant who enters the considerable profits
  • pain, then the illusory character of the objects causing certain feelings of
  • Our desire, in any given case, is directed to a particular object. As we
  • pleasure which must be satisfied by a particular object or a particular
  • sensation, we shall not be satisfied with some other object or some other
  • for the objects of his desire if he can bear the necessary pain, however great
  • there can be no objection to comparing different sorts of pleasure and pain
  • are those where the objects towards which our activity is directed are all
  • he has in view the concrete objects of his striving, not
  • apparent objection that the will, as such, is the irrational factor in man
  • will. An apparent objection of exactly this kind was brought against me from
  • this objection just misses the main point. If freedom is to be realized, the
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Fourteen: Individuality and Genus
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  • other objects the observer must get his concepts through his
  • objected to the above arguments that, even now, within the generic
  • profession. I am aware that this objection will be urged today (1918),
  • violently such an objection runs counter to the concept of freedom
• Title: Book: PoF: Ultimate Questions: The Consequences of Monism
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  • contains all objective percepts, also embraces the content of
  • the objective in one grasp, and that through the union of
  • reality that is given objectively, the concept the part that is
  • thinking is neither subjective nor objective, but is a principle
  • real. The objects of imagination, too, are no more than
  • realm of our thinking's experience by denying the objective
  • objective factors lying beyond our experience and which are
  • intuition. Man does not take the purposes of an objective
• Title: Book: PoF: Appendix Added to the new edition, 1918
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  • with a “table-in-itself”, but only with an object in one's
  • consciousness has no other objects than its own contents.
  • one now transforms itself into a mere sum of objects
  • of consciousness, and, moreover, only of objects of one's
  • the objects of our consciousness to arise in it. One can arrive
  • as perceptual objects in the three consciousnesses under the
  • pictured objects in the two consciousnesses) is a transcendental