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• Fichte is concerned with freedom as non-domination.

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  Domination, Concerned

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• We commit not only theoretical error but also moral wrong in objectifying ourselves or other rational beings, ignoring their capacities for free action and communicative interaction with us.

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  Errors, Objectifying, Action

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• Kant thinks that a free will is a will under moral laws and that freedom and the moral law are distinct thoughts that reciprocally imply each other. Fichte thinks they are the same thought.

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  Thinking, Law, Moral

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• Some of Kant's particular moral opinions, either because he shared the prejudices of his time, or because of his own personal crotchets, can strike sensible people as ridiculous or offensive. But in my view, his own theory provides us with the resources (the best resources available, I believe) to correct his own personal errors or cultural prejudices.

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  Believe, Errors, Views

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• No podemos predecir los efectos de nuestras acciones, especialmente de nuestras acciones colectivas a lo largo de generaciones o siglos, para utilizar el razonamiento instrumental hacia estos grandes fines finales para decirnos lo que debemos hacer.

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  Finals, Generations, Use

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• It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and then turn these into what look like moral theories. Philosophers tend to be ravished by the formal beauty of such theories, and they don't pay much attention to the fact that our human limitations make them pretty useless in practice, while the simple point about instrumental reasoning is too shallow to be of much real moral interest.

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  Real, Mean, Simple

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• When people think that moral problems can be solved by some simple strategy of calculation, that sets them up for ghastly overreaching. They think they can turn everything into a "science" the way mechanics was turned into a science in the seventeeth century. They want to turn everything over to technocrats and social engineers. They become shortsighted or simplistic about their ends, and they disastrously overestimate their ability to acquire the information they need to make the needed calculations.

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  Simple, Pensamiento, Gente

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• I could identify for virtually every important figure in the history of modern continental philosophy an idea (or more than one) absolutely central to that philosopher's thought, whose original author was Fichte.

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  Philosophy, Ideas, Important

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• The moral law is simply the way we think our own freedom as self-determination.

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  Determination, Thinking, Self

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• I don't think Kant's theory looks bad to people except insofar as they have misunderstood it (for instance, as heartless and ironheaded, or as committed to an absurd metaphysical conception of freedom that violates Kant's own philosophy).

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  Filosofía, Pensamiento, Personas

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• The problem is that many who reject Marx do not read him, or read him only by bringing prejudices to their reading that prevent them from understanding him.

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  Reading, Understanding, Prejudice

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• It seems to me self-evident that it is worthwhile to understand the best thoughts of the past, to appropriate them, to criticize them.

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  Past, Self, Worthwhile

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• Fichte thinks that the mutual recognition of one another as free beings belongs among the transcendental conditions of self-consciousness itself.

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  Thinking, Self, Recognition

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• Hegel's theory of recognition is basically derived from Fichte, who is its real author.

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  Real, Recognition, Hegel

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• Que la teoría de Hegel sea derivada de la de Fichte no impide que sea llamativamente original y de valor independiente.

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  Independent, Doe, Derivatives

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• Fichte es un paso necesario tanto para Hegel como para Marx.

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  Steps, Hegel

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• When Marx, in the Theses on Feuerbach, says that only idealism up to now has understood the active side of material Praxis, what he says is more true of Fichte than of any other philosopher in the classical German tradition.

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  Sides, Philosopher, Tradition

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• I think Fichte did take it further than Kant by arguing that we can regard the moral law as objectively valid only by seeing it as addressed to us by another being, even though Fichte thought God could not literally be a person who could address us.

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  Thinking, Law, Addresses

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• Both Kant and Fichte thought of traditions of revealed religion as ways of symbolically (that is, with aesthetic emotional power) thinking about our moral condition. Both thought that religion would become more and not less powerful, emotionally and morally, if the claims of scriptures and religious teachings were taken symbolically rather than literally (whatever 'literally' might mean in the case of claims that are either nonsensical or outdated or historically unsupportable if taken as metaphysical or historical assertions).

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  Religious, Powerful, Teaching

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• It is a culturally interesting (but also deeply depressing) fact that many religious claims seem to retain their emotional power for believers only if taken in ways that are intellectually unsupportable and even morally contemptible.

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  Depressing, Religious, Taken

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• It is actually a nice question how far Descartes himself endorses the monological and metaphysically dualistic theory of mind associated with his name and his legacy in early modern philosophy. But Fichte does reject this tradition, by suggesting that an immaterial thinking substance is an incoherent notion, and a rational being whose rationality was not developed through communication with others is a transcendental impossibility.

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  Nice, Philosophy, Communication

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• Fichte takes an I or free will to be not a thing or being but an act which is not undetermined but self-determined, in accordance with reasons or norms rationally self-given.

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  Self, Determined, Free Will

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• Kant takes a free will to be a being or substance with the power to cause a state of the world (or a whole series of such states) spontaneously or from itself.

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  Substance, World, Causes

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• Seguramente el mundo será un lugar mejor, al menos marginalmente, si la gente comprende mejor a Kant y Hegel, si el pensamiento de Marx es estudiado y apreciado, si la gente comprende mejor a Fichte, cuya filosofía es mucho más importante de lo que la gente cree.

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  Philosophy, People, Understanding

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• I do not know how much my own work has achieved, and I must not pretend it has done more than it has.

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  Done, Know How, My Own

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