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id: 5684
author: Kant, Immanuel
title: The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics
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  It may be asked whether metaphysical elements are required also for every practical philosophy, which is the doctrine of duties, and therefore also for Ethics, in order to be able to present it as a true science (systematically), not merely as an aggregate of separate doctrines (fragmentarily). it seems contrary to the idea of it that we should go back to metaphysical elements in order to make the notion of duty purified from everything empirical (from every feeling) a motive of action.


id: 42208
author: Dewey, John
title: German philosophy and politics
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  CONTENTS PAGE I GERMAN PHILOSOPHY: THE TWO WORLDS 3 II GERMAN MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 47 III THE GERMANIC PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY 91 INDEX 133 GERMAN PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICS I GERMAN PHILOSOPHY: THE TWO WORLDS The nature of the influence of general ideas upon practical affairs is a troubled question. German philosophy is attached to antitheses and their reconciliation in a higher synthesis.


id: 5682
author: Kant, Immanuel
title: Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
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  But in the practical sphere it is just when the common understanding excludes all sensible springs from practical laws that its power of judgement begins to show itself to advantage. The ends which a rational being proposes to himself at pleasure as effects of his actions (material ends) are all only relative, for it is only their relation to the particular desires of the subject that gives them their worth, which therefore cannot furnish principles universal and necessary for all rational beings and for every volition, that is to say practical laws.


id: 48431
author: Santayana, George
title: Egotism in German Philosophy
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  A happy equilibrium once established in human life would have been only a temptation, a sort of Napoleonic or Mephistophelian quietus falling on the will to strive. The dead heart of other nations may dream of gods in the clouds, or of some perfect type of human life already exemplified in the past and only to be approached or repeated in the future.


id: 47588
author: Brandes, Georg
title: Friedrich Nietzsche
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  Nevertheless the self-contradiction we find in asceticism--life turned _against_ life--is of course only apparent. Thus Renan says, almost in the same words: In fine, the object of humanity is the production of great men ... nothing but great men; salvation will come from great men.


id: 5683
author: Kant, Immanuel
title: The Critique of Practical Reason
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  Now, here there comes in a notion of causality justified by the critique of the pure reason, although not capable of being presented empirically, viz., that of freedom; and if we can now discover means of proving that this property does in fact belong to the human will (and so to the will of all rational beings), then it will not only be shown that pure reason can be practical, but that it alone, and not reason empirically limited, is indubitably practical; consequently, we shall have to make a critical examination, not of pure practical reason, but only of practical reason generally. Now since the promotion of this summum bonum, and therefore the supposition of its possibility, are objectively necessary (though only as a result of practical reason), while at the same time the manner in which we would conceive it rests with our own choice, and in this choice a free interest of pure practical reason decides for the assumption of a wise Author of the world; it is clear that the principle that herein determines our judgement, though as a want it is subjective, yet at the same time being the means of promoting what is objectively (practically) necessary, is the foundation of a maxim of belief in a moral point of view, that is, a faith of pure practical reason.


id: 5652
author: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
title: Thoughts out of Season, Part I
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  In this respect, however, all shame has vanished--from the public as well as from the Master's mind: he is allowed, not merely to cross himself before the greatest and purest creations of German genius, as though he had perceived something godless and immoral in them, but people actually rejoice over his candid confessions and admission of sins--more particularly as he makes no mention of his own, but only of those which great men are said to have committed. And now ye presume that ye are going to be permitted, tamquam re bene gesta, to praise such men!


id: 4363
author: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
title: Beyond Good and Evil
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  It is not the strength, but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men. Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority--where he may forget men who are the rule, as their exception;--exclusive only of the case in which he is pushed straight to such men by a still stronger instinct, as a discerner in the great and exceptional sense.


id: 49316
author: Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)
title: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
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  The Case of Wagner (including Nietzsche _contra_ Wagner and selected aphorisms), translated by A. M. Ludovici, and We Philologists, translated by J. M. Kennedy, with prefaces by the translators. Therefore, it came to be recognized at the very beginning of civilization, that the man who killed other men was a foe to those conditions which the average man had to seek in order to exist--to peace and order and quiet and security.


