Fichte's Transcendental Philosophy: The

This is the first book in English on the major works of the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte (17621814). It examines the transcendental theory of self and world from the writings of Fichte's most influential period (17941800), and considers in detail recently discovered lectures on the Foundations of Transcendental Philosophy. At the center of that body of work stands Fichte's attempt to integrate the theories of volition and cognition into a unified but complex 'system of freedom'. The focus of this book is the intricate interplay between thinking and willing in the birth of experience out of the spirit of freedom. Combining incomparable erudition, sensitive readings of some of the most difficult of philosophical texts, clarity in exposition and an acute awareness of historical context this book takes its place as the ideal introduction to Fichte's thought.

Acknowledgments

XI

(2)

Method of Citation for Fichte's and Kant's Works

XIII

(2)

Key to Fichte's Works Cited

XV

Introduction

1

(10)

Part I Thinking about Thinking

11

(32)

1 Completing Kant's Transcendental Idealism

11

(14)

1 The Systematic Significance of Transcendental Ideadlism in Kant

12

(3)

2 The Wissenschaftslehre as System of Transcendental Idealism

15

(5)

3 The Metacritique of Transcendental Idealism

20

(5)

2 An Eye for an I

25

(18)

1 Philosophy as Wissenschaftslehre

26

(1)

2 The Wissenschaftslehre as Idealism

27

(3)

3 The Method of the Wissenschaftslehre

30

(2)

4 The Experiment of the Wissenschaftslehre

32

(6)

5 Assessing the Project of the Wissenschaftslehre

38

(5)

Part II Knowing and Doing

43

(28)

3 Positing and Determining

43

(12)

1 Absolute Positing

45

(3)

2 From Positing to Determining

48

(2)

3 Theoretical Determining

50

(2)

4 Practical Determining and Predicative Positing 4 Changing the Appearances

55

(16)

1 The System of Ethics in the System of the Wissenschaftslehre

56

(3)

2 The Moral Principle of Subjectivity

59

(4)

3 A Transcendental Theory of Action

63

(8)

Part III Thinking and Willing

71

(26)

5 Willing as Thinking

71

(12)

1 An Integrated Theory of Reason

72

(2)

2 Freedom and the Laws of Thinking

74

(1)

3 Thinking and Intuiting

75

(3)

4 Intelligence and Practical Faculty

78

(1)

5 Thinking and Willing

79

(1)

6 Pure Willing and Thinking

79

(4)

6 Ideal Thinking and Real Thinking

83

(14)

1 The Ideality of Philosophy

84

(2)

2 Ideal and Real Activity

86

(3)

3 Ideal and Real Thinking

89

(2)

4 Thinking and the Real

91

(6)

Part IV Pure Willing

97

(30)

7 Determination to Self-determination

97

(13)

1 The Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation

99

(2)

2 The System of Ethics

101

(4)

3 The Wissenschaftslehre Nova Methodo

105

(5)

8 The Unity of Intelligence and Will

110

(17)

1 Transcendental Noumenalism

111

(5)

2 Synthetic Thinking and the Pure Will

116

(5)

3 Faith as the Unity of Intelligence and Will

121

(6)

Notes

127

(26)

Bibliography

153

(10)

Index

163

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Fichte's Transcendental Philosophy: The Original Duplicity of Intelligence and Will

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