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The Palgrave Fichte Handbook

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2019
ISBN
978-3-030-26507-6
Language
english
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555\555
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This Handbook provides a comprehensive single-volume treatment of Fichte’s philosophy. In addition to offering new researchers an authoritative introduction and orientation to Fichtean thought, the volume also surveys the main scholarly and philosophical controversies regarding Fichtean interpretation, and defends a range of philosophical theses in a way that advances the scholarly discussion. Fichte is the first major philosopher in the post-Kantian tradition and the first of the great German Idealists, but he was no mere epigone of Kant or precursor to Hegel. His work speaks powerfully and originally to a wide range of issues of enduring concern, and his many innovations importantly anticipate major developments, including absolute idealism, phenomenology, and existentialism. He is therefore not only a path-breaking thinker but also a pivotal figure in Western intellectual history. Wide-ranging, well-organised and timely, this key volume makes Fichte’s work both accessible and relevant. It is essential reading for scholars, graduate researchers and advanced students interested in Fichte, German Idealism, and the history of nineteenth-century philosophy in the West. Preface......Page 6 Series Editor’s Preface......Page 8 Contents......Page 10 Fichte......Page 14 Kant......Page 16 Notes on Contributors......Page 18 1: Introduction: Fichte’s Post-Kantian Project......Page 23 Fichte’s Philosophy in Context......Page 24 Metaphilosophy and Method......Page 26 Transcendental Fundamentals......Page 30 Ethical Theory......Page 33 Political and Social Theory......Page 36 Metaphysics and Epistemology......Page 40 Some Repercussions......Page 42 Conclusion: Complexity, Unity, Infinity......Page 45 Part I: Historical and Conceptual Context......Page 52 The Early Years (1762–1794)......Page 53 The Jena Wissenschaftslehre (1794–1799)......Page 55 The Atheism Dispute (1798–1800)......Page 58 Three Transitional Texts (1800)......Page 61 The Religionslehre (1805–1806)......Page 66 The Last Presentation of the Wissenschaftslehre (1807–1812)......Page 67 Conclusion: Pure Will, Moral Order, God, and Being......Page 69 3: The Precursor as Rival: Fichte in Relation to Kant......Page 76 Predecessor and Competitor......Page 77 Critique and System......Page 80 Theoretical and Practical Reason......Page 84 Law and Ethics......Page 87 Conclusion: Idealism, Identity, and Difference......Page 91 4: Fichte, German Idealism, and the Parameters of Systematic Philosophy......Page 94 Fichte and the Idea of a System......Page 95 Schellingian Transformations......Page 99 Hegel, the System, and the Challenge of Skepticism......Page 105 Conclusion: Fichte and the Parameters of German Idealism......Page 108 Part II: Metaphilosophy and Method......Page 113 5: Fichte on the Standpoint of Philosophy and the Standpoint of Ordinary Life......Page 114 The Aim of Fichte’s System......Page 115 The Distinction of the Two Standpoints......Page 116 Transcendental Philosophy and the Practical Stance......Page 120 The Aftermath of the Distinction......Page 125 The Two Standpoints and Fichte’s Radical Conception of Philosophy......Page 129 6: Reflection, Metaphilosophy, and Logic of Action in the Science of Knowledge......Page 134 The Critique of Kantian Representation......Page 136 The Refusal of the Classical Notion of Reflection......Page 137 The Issue of the Status of the Philosopher’s Discourse......Page 139 Reflection and Metaphilosophy: How Can We Know that We Know?......Page 141 Reflection and Self-Referentiality: The Application of a Proposition to Itself......Page 143 From Reflection as Description to Reflection as Argumentation......Page 145 The Consistency Between Speech and Action......Page 146 A New Identity, a New Logic......Page 148 A New Definition of Rationality......Page 150 Conclusion: Fichte and the Dawn of Reflectivity......Page 152 7: Fichte’s Anti-Dogmatism and the Autonomy of Reason......Page 155 The Choice Between Two Possibilities......Page 157 The Absolute Autonomy of Reason......Page 160 Two Levels of Spiritual Development......Page 163 A Subjectivist Ground of Rational Justification......Page 165 The Idealist “Refutation of Dogmatism”......Page 168 Refuting Dogmatism for the Idealist......Page 169 Refuting Dogmatism for the Dogmatist......Page 171 Part III: Transcendental Theory......Page 177 8: Knowledge and Action: Self-Positing, I-Hood, and the Centrality of the Striving Doctrine......Page 178 Self-Determination and the Nature of I-Hood......Page 180 The Striving Doctrine, Representation, and I-Hood......Page 193 9: Fichte’s Account of Reason and Rational Normativity......Page 203 Reason as Non-Sensory Ordering Activity......Page 204 Acting Versus Being, Positing Versus Sensing......Page 208 Self-Positing as the Source of Rational Requirements......Page 213 Fichte’s Post-Kantian Constructivism......Page 216 The Unity of (Principally Practical) Reason......Page 217 Rationality, Evidentialism, and ‘Faith’ (Glaube)......Page 219 10: Fichte’s Relational I: Anstoβ and Aufforderung......Page 227 The Concept of the Anstoβ......Page 230 The Anstoβ as a Necessary Condition of the I......Page 232 The Anstoβ and Objectivity......Page 236 Three Forms of the Anstoβ......Page 238 Interpreting the Anstoβ......Page 241 A Middle Way: The Anstoβ as a Normative Task......Page 244 Conclusion: Normativity, Intersubjectivity, and Relationality......Page 246 Part IV: Ethical Theory......Page 250 11: Fichte’s Deduction of the Moral Law......Page 251 Normativity and the Science of Ethics......Page 252 Fichte’s Deduction of the Moral Law......Page 255 The Law for Freedom......Page 257 The Higher Synthesis......Page 258 Problems and Prospects......Page 261 Conclusion: The Science of Ethics......Page 264 12: Freedom as an End in Itself: Fichte on Ethical Duties......Page 269 Kant’s Duties of Virtue......Page 270 Fichte’s Ethical Duties......Page 281 Material Differences Between Fichte and Kant......Page 291 13: Fichte on Freedom......Page 296 A Kantian Benchmark......Page 298 Deism and Determinism......Page 300 Freedom and Revelation......Page 303 Encounter with a Skeptical Critic......Page 308 Freedom and the Foundations of the Wissenschaftslehre......Page 310 Conclusion: The Realization of Freedom and the Vocation of Man......Page 314 Part V: Political and Social Theory......Page 318 14: Fichte on Property Rights and Coercion......Page 319 Property Right in the “Broadest Sense”......Page 322 Fichtean Property Rights......Page 328 The Absolute Right of Coercion......Page 336 15: Fichte’s Theory of the State in the Foundations of Natural Right......Page 339 Fichte’s Methodology......Page 340 The Social Contract......Page 341 The Powers of Government......Page 343 The Theory of the Ephorate......Page 345 The Police......Page 350 16: Fichte’s Concept of the Nation......Page 362 The Concept of the Nation and Commercial Independence......Page 363 Fichte’s Concept of the Nation in the Addresses to the German Nation......Page 372 17: Fichte’s Philosophy of History: Between A Priori Foundation and Material Development......Page 382 Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre and the Problem of a Philosophy of History......Page 385 History and the Philosophy of History Before The Characteristics of the Present Age......Page 389 The “Logic of Historical Truth”: The Characteristics of the Present Age......Page 393 Part VI: Metaphysics and Epistemology......Page 404 18: Giving Shape to the Shapeless: Divine Incomprehensibility, Moral Knowledge, and Symbolic Representation......Page 405 God as Moral World Order......Page 407 Fichte on Conceptual Comprehension......Page 410 God’s Relations......Page 415 Moral Life and the Image (Bild) of God......Page 417 Conclusion: Representing God......Page 423 19: The Letter and the Spirit: Kant’s Metaphysics and Fichte’s Epistemology......Page 429 What Is Idealism?......Page 430 Kant’s Alternative to Wolffian Metaphysics......Page 431 Positing and the Anstoß......Page 433 Fichte’s Denial of the Thing in Itself......Page 435 Objects as Objective Representations......Page 438 The Feeling of Necessity......Page 441 Transcendental Idealism and Empirical Realism......Page 442 Special Metaphysics and the “Real World”......Page 443 Conclusion: Fichte’s Epistemic Modesty......Page 447 20: Transcendental Ontology in Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre of 1804......Page 450 Being in the 1804 Wissenschaftslehre......Page 452 Absolute Knowing......Page 458 Naturalism and Transcendental Ontology......Page 461 Part VII: Repercussions......Page 468 21: Heidegger’s Modest Fichteanism......Page 469 22: Fichte, Sartre, and Levinas on the Problem with the Problem of Other Minds......Page 491 The Standard Problem of Other Minds......Page 493 Sartre: The Antagonism of Sharing a World......Page 495 Fichte: The Reciprocal Recognition of Boundaries......Page 498 Levinas: The Unnarratable Other......Page 504 Conclusion: Phenomenological Variations on the Problem of Other Minds......Page 508 23: Fichtean Selfhood and Contemporary Philosophy of Language: The Case of Transcendental Pragmatics......Page 513 Two Ways of Rehabilitating Fichtean Ideas......Page 516 Self-Referentiality and the Fichtean “Science of Science”......Page 519 Apelian Transcendental Pragmatics as a Fichtean Philosophy of Language......Page 524 Conclusion: Fichte’s Continued Significance......Page 531 24: Conclusion: Complexity, Unity, Infinity......Page 536 Index......Page 540

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