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Philosophy of Spirit
105 concepts · 147 definitions
- absolute1
- anger1
- asceticism1
- astrology1
- body2
- caprice1
- childhood1
- choice1
- civilization1
- clairvoyance2
- comprehension1
- consciousness2
- critical philosophy1
- desire1
- difference1
- disease1
- distraction1
- dream1
- duty1
- ego1
- emotion2
- empiricism1
- endurance1
- error1
- evil1
- face1
- faculty1
- feeling6
- finitude1
- force1
- foreboding1
- forgetting1
- freedom1
- genius2
- God1
- golden age1
- grief1
- habit6
- happiness1
- heart3
- human body1
- human nature1
- hypnosis1
- ideality1
- imagination1
- immateriality1
- inclination1
- insanity4
- intelligence2
- interest1
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte1
- justice1
Habit (n.) of living is what brings on death — or, if quite abstract, is death itself; yet without habit no religious or moral content could ever become part of who one is.
Habit (n.) is how the soul has its contents without feeling them: it moves in them without consciousness, and so is free to be occupied with something else.
Habit (n.) is the mechanism of self-feeling, as memory is the mechanism of intelligence.
Habit (n.) emancipates man from his feelings even while he is affected by them; the habit of right and goodness is an embodiment of liberty.
Mind (n.) is the existent truth of matter — the truth that matter itself has no truth.
Mind (n.) as such is free and therefore cannot go mad; only as a soul, a thing, can it suffer the settled fixture of some finite element.
Mind (n.) has nature for its presupposition, yet is nature's truth and therefore its absolute prius — what comes after is what was first.
Mind (n.) keeps its lower stages inside it as features of the higher, unlike nature, whose stages stand apart — so the highest moral and religious life can show up disguised as mere sensation.
Feeling (n.) makes a principle my very own: what is only in the head can be held apart from me, what is in the heart is a mode of my individuality.
Feeling (n.) is the lowest and worst form in which reason can exist — not more than thought, but less.
Feeling (n.) clung to against reason holds nothing more than reason does except particular subjectivity, vanity and caprice.
Feeling (n.) is where everything starts — but source only means the first, crudest way a thing appears.
Soul (n.) conceived abstractly is only the sleep of mind.
Soul (n.) is no separate immaterial entity: wherever there is nature, the soul is its universal immaterialism, its simple ideal life.
Soul (n.) is one simple, omnipresent unity in the body: for the feeling soul the body's parts-outside-parts are no barrier and no truth.
Soul (n.) for modern metaphysics became a thing with many powers, fixed as a spectre or an angel and even given a colour — Kant's merit was to put the self in its place.
Insanity (n.) is not an abstract loss of reason but a contradiction within a reason that still subsists — just as disease is not total loss of health, which would be death.
Insanity (n.) is dreaming within the waking limits — the dream becomes part of one's actual self-feeling.
Insanity (n.) is the evil genius of man gaining the upper hand: when principle relaxes its lock and key, the vanity, pride and selfish passions always latent in the natural heart are set free.
Insanity (n.) is a single feeling or fixed idea that refuses its proper place in the ordered world of a conscious subject, and so stands in contradiction to the whole.
Spirit (n.) does not reveal something; its very mode and meaning is revelation.
Spirit (n.) is the act by which nullity is nullified and vanity is made vain.
Spirit (n.) coming into being means that nature realises its own untruth and sets itself aside.
The Heart (n.) legitimates nothing: an appeal to heart and feeling either means nothing or means something bad — for from the heart proceed evil thoughts, murder, adultery.
The Heart (n.) finds its rationality only in the universality of intelligence, never in the individuality of feeling.
The Heart (n.) without understanding, or understanding without heart, is the most trivial form of a false separation.
Pain (n.) and evil exist only where the concept confronts its existence — in death and stone there is neither; in life, and still more in spirit, freedom is their very principle.
Pain (n.) and torture were seen by Jacob Boehme as the source of nature and of spirit.
Recognition (n.) is universal self-consciousness, knowing oneself in another self: I am free only as I recognise the other and know it to be free.
Recognition (n.) begins in a contradiction: I perceive myself in the other as an I, and yet the other is an I absolutely independent of me.
Clairvoyance (n.) skips the chain of means that cool reflection must traverse — which is exactly why it is at the mercy of every private whim and can never tell what it sees from what it fancies.
Clairvoyance (n.) sees only its own particular little world, never the general essence — the magic circle of sympathy with nature is finally an incantation, a subjugation.