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Johan
Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814) |
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The science of knowledge German transcendental Idealism, natural rights, anstoss, absolute Ego, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Schlegel – 'Was fur sich kein ich ist, ist kein ich' Fichte celebrated the French Revolution, but in a manner similar to Hegel, saw Germany as the site of the historic age wherein life could be guided by reason. Politically Fichte believed in a rule of reason wherein men would through a patriotic community of mind consent to live according to duty categorically deduced from the principle of the absolute ego. |
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The Vocation of Man – J.G.Fichte |
The Body as Anstoss in Sartre’s Account of Constitution Fichte's Philosophy of Right and Ethics - Allen Wood |
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Hegel on Fichte in the shorter logic Fichte excerpts in Hegel’s shorter logic |
Hegel on Fichte in the Lectures on history of Philsophy (MIA) Fichte’s Outlines of the doctrine of knowledge (MIA) |
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Wissenschaftslehre Zurückforderung der Denkfreiheit System der Sittenlehre [1798] Versuch einer Kritik aller Offenbarung
[1792] Other reading: Norman Hampson, 'The Enlightenment' Penguin, 1990 (p. 176-182)
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