Fichte's Theory of Subjectivity

Fichte's Theory of Subjectivity
Author: Frederick Neuhouser
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 1990-10-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521399388

The first book in English to elucidate the central issues in Fichte's work.

The Enigma of Fichte’s First Principles

The Enigma of Fichte’s First Principles
Author: David W. Wood
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 493
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004459790

This volume of articles in English by an international team of scholars presents new critical perspectives on the first principles of J.G. Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre and some of the key sub-disciplines of his philosophy.

Fichte's Social and Political Philosophy

Fichte's Social and Political Philosophy
Author: David James
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2011-01-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1139495410

In this study of Fichte's social and political philosophy, David James offers an interpretation of Fichte's most famous writings in this area, including his Foundations of Natural Right and Addresses to the German Nation, centred on two main themes: property and virtue. These themes provide the basis for a discussion of such issues as what it means to guarantee the freedom of all the citizens of a state, the problem of unequal relations of economic dependence between states, and the differences and connections between the legal and political sphere of right and morality. James also relates Fichte's central social and political ideas to those of other important figures in the history of philosophy, including Locke, Kant and Hegel, as well as to the radical phase of the French Revolution. His account will be of importance to all who are interested in Fichte's philosophy and its intellectual and political context.

Fichte's Ethical Thought

Fichte's Ethical Thought
Author: Allen W. Wood
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2016-04-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0191079502

Allen W. Wood presents the first book-length systematic exposition in English of Fichte's most important ethical work, the System of Ethics (1798). He places this work in the context of Fichte's life and career, of his philosophical system as conceived in the later Jena period, and in relation to his philosophy of right or justice and politics. Wood discusses Fichte's defense of freedom of the will, his grounding of the moral principle, theory of moral conscience, transcendental deduction of intersubjectivity, and his conception of free rational communication and the rational society. He develops and emphasizes the social and political radicalism of Fichte's moral and political philosophy, and brings out the philosophical interest of Fichte's positions and arguments for present day philosophy. Fichte's Ethical Thought defends the position that Fichte is a major thinker in the history of ethics, and the most important figure in the history of modern continental philosophy in the past two centuries.

The Science of Knowing

The Science of Knowing
Author: J. G. Fichte
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0791483223

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.

Independence of Nature in Fichte's Ethics

Independence of Nature in Fichte's Ethics
Author: Michelle Kosch
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2018
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0198809662

Michelle Kosch offers a systematic, historically informed reconstruction of the ethical theory of the great German Idealist J. G. Fichte (1762-1814). Central to Fichte's theory are his accounts of rational agency and autonomy. Kosch highlights the theory's very substantial potential for contribution to ethics today.

Fichte: The System of Ethics

Fichte: The System of Ethics
Author: Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2005-11-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521577670

Fichte's System of Ethics, originally 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. This study integrates the discussion of our moral duties into the systematic framework of a transcendental theory of the human subject. Ranging over numerous important philosophical themes, the volume offers a new translation of the work together with an introduction that sets it in its philosophical and historical contexts.

Reinhold and Fichte in Confrontation

Reinhold and Fichte in Confrontation
Author: Martin Bondeli
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2020-03-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3110685051

From the early 1790s until after the turn of the century, a very productive but also controversial exchange took place between Reinhold and Fichte. Though many key aspects of post-Kantian philosophy were discussed, the philosophical confrontation between Reinhold and Fichte is most instructive for the understanding of post-Kantian philosophy. The exchange started when Fichte published his verdict on Reinhold's Elementarphilosophie and disapproved of its fundamental principle. In 1794 Fichte challenged Reinhold by presenting his Wissenschaftslehre. Reinhold was not convinced of Fichte's foundation of philosophy at first, but announced that he accepted the Wissenschaftslehre in 1797. While Reinhold and Fichte officially collaborated in the following three years, tensions concerning fundamental questions were still present. When Reinhold adopted Rational Realism, his relation to Fichte deteriorated and the exchange between the two finally ended. The contributions in the present collection focus on the central systematic issues at the different stages of the confrontation between Fichte and Reinhold, thereby illuminating questions that are essential to the understanding of the evolution of post-Kantian German philosophy.