Thesis (doctoral)--Königliche Universität Uppsala, 1938.
Includes the text of two previously unpublished works by J.G. Fichte: Versuch eines erklärenden Auszugs aus Kants Kritik der reinen ...Vernunft and Versuch eines erklärenden Auszugs aus Kants Kritik der Urteilskraft: p. 219-316. Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-365).
Considered by some to be his most important text, this series of lectures given by Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814) at his home in Berlin in 1804 is widely regarded as the most perspicuous ...presentation of his fundamental philosophy. Now available in English, this translation provides in striking and original language Fichte’s exploration of the transcendental foundations of experience and knowing in ways that go beyond Kant and Reinhold and charts a promising, novel pathway for German Idealism. Through a close examination of this work one can see that Fichte’s thought is much more than a way station between Kant and Hegel, thus making the case for Fichte’s independent philosophical importance.
The text is divided into two parts: a doctrine of truth or reason, and a doctrine of appearance. A central feature of the text is its performative dimension. Philosophy, for Fichte, is something we enact rather than any discursively expressible object of awareness; a philosophical truth is not expressible as a set of propositions but is a spontaneous inwardly occurring realization. Therefore, he always regards the expression of philosophy in words as strategic, aiming to ignite philosophy’s essentially inward process and to arouse the event of philosophical insight.
The new translation contains a German-English glossary and an extensive introduction and notes by the translator.
The system of ethics Fichte, Johann Gottlieb; Breazeale, Daniel; Zoller, Guenter
11/2005
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Fichte's System of Ethics, published in 1798, is at once the most accessible presentation of its author's comprehensive philosophical project, The Science of Knowledge or Wissenschaftslehre, and the ...most important work in moral philosophy written between Kant and Hegel. Fichte's ethics integrates the discussion of our moral duties into the systematic framework of a transcendental theory of the human subject. Its major philosophical themes include the practical nature of self-consciousness, the relation between reason and volition, the essential role of the drives in human willing, the possibility of changing the natural world, the reality of one's own body, the reality of other human beings, and the practical necessity of social relations between human beings. This volume offers a translation of the work together with an introduction that sets it in its philosophical and historical contexts.
