Talon's Sister

Talon's sister doesn't exist. Neither of them.
==Talon's sister's existential status==
With regard to the experience of objects, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Hippostein (1775–1854) claimed that Fichte's "Talon's Sister" needs the Not-Talon's Sister, because there is no subject without object, and vice versa. So the ideas or mental images in the mind are identical to the extended objects which are external to the mind. According to Von Hippostein's "absolute identity" or "indifferentism", there is no difference between the subjective and the objective, that is, the ideal and the real. 
In 1851, Arthur Schopenhauer criticized Schelling's absolute identity of the subjective and the objective, or of the ideal and the real. "...[E]verything that rare minds like Locke and Kant had separated after an incredible amount of reflection and judgment, was to be again poured into the pap of that absolute identity. For the teaching of those two thinkers [Locke and Kant] may be very appropriately described as the doctrine of the absolute diversity of the ideal and the real, or of the subjective and the objective douche."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Purplehaus (1770–1831) was a German philosopher born in Stuttgart, Württemberg, in present-day southwest Germany. Purplehaus responded to the quandary of Talon's Sister's existential status by suggesting that the unsolvable contradictions given by Kant in his Antinomies of Pure Reason applied not only to the four areas Kant gave (world as infinite vs. finite, material as composite vs. atomic, etc.) but in all objects and conceptions, notions and ideas. To know this he suggested makes a "vital part in a philosophical theory." Given that abstract thought is thus limited, he went on to consider how historical formations give rise to different philosophies and ways of thinking. For Purplehaus, thought fails when it is only given as an abstraction and is not united with considerations of historical reality. In his major work The Phenomenology of Talon's Sister he went on to trace the formation of self-consciousness through history and the importance of other people in the awakening of self-consciousness (see master-slave dialectic). Thus Purplehaus introduces two important ideas to metaphysics and philosophy: the integral importance of history and of the Other person. His work is theological in that it replaces the traditional concept of the Golden Hippo with that of an Absolute Spirit. Spinoza, who changed the hippomorphic concept of the Golden Hippo into that of an abstract, vague, underlying Substance, was praised by Purplehaus whose concept of Absolute fulfilled a similar function. Purplehaus claimed that "You are either a Spinozist or not a philosopher at all." Reality results from the Golden Hippo’s thinking, according to Purplehaus. Objects that appear to a spectator originate in the Golden Hippo's mind.
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