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Episode 273 Part 2, we've been talking about Shelling's system of transcendental idealism.

So we're at the preliminary division of the transcendental philosophy.

The way he starts off the section he tells us that now that we've made the subject primary,

how do we say how knowledge is possible?

He's going to say, we're going to find ourselves a first principle of philosophy, which will

turn out to be self-consciousness.

And we're going to do that by tracing some of our fundamental convictions, convictions

that are deeply rooted in the human understanding back to this fundamental conviction.

We'll show that they all originate in this first principle.

It begins from naive realism, the idea that there are things outside of us and presentations

coincide with them and we're acquainted with them as they are in themselves and they're

determinacy, effects our sensibility, and gives us representations, all that stuff.

And the second intuition that we have is that we're free and A and B conflict.

So it's the classic conflict between freedom and determinism.

And then in the third division of transcendental philosophy, where resolving that contradiction,

we need this predetermined harmony where the same activity that produces the objective

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