May 5, 2017 · Fichte himself thought that one position could not refute the other. Instead we are revealed by the leap of faith we take in regard to first principles. In my view, philosophy these days largely serves as rational religion. In that sense Fichte is a theologian, except that "critical" theology engulfs and becomes the God of pre-critical theology.

Nov 16, 2022 · As the title says, can someone explain the difference and similarities between Kant's, Fichte's, and Husserl's concept of the I or ego? Be it pure I, empirical I, or transcendental I. Or perhaps point to some literature.

Jun 30, 2017 · Fichte points beneath rationality, beneath justifications in the realm of concept, and postulates an irrational or pre-rational urge. The systems of philosophers are the flowers of this urge. The immediate feeling of my impulse to independent activity lies at the foundation of this thought; the thought does no more than portray this feeling ...

Oct 10, 2022 · What is the philosophical project? I read a lot of non-contemporary philosophy, and a lot of out outlier material, Mannheim, Scheler, Laszlo. I also frequently revisit seminal and great works, Whitehead, Bergson, Fichte, Aristotle, Marx. I …

Dec 10, 2021 · Every experience for Fichte is localized in consciousness and so the world as it appears to consciousness is the world as it is. Philosophy therefore is the reexamination of self cosciousness, what does consciousnes do when it constructs a world out of its data.

I'm writing a paper on philosophical egology, and I kinda got stuck on Husserl. Up until then, especially in German Idealism, they use the terminology of the 'I', pure 'I', transcendental 'I' (in German 'Ich' and 'das Ich'), etc. Kant, Fichte, Max Stirner... even Freud …

Aug 18, 2022 · Right now my current problem is deciding between Fichte's Foundations of Transcendental Philosophy and Cassirer's Philosophy of the Enlightenment. The pet project I've been bringing into focus is one of "reformation". The enlightenment is a well described socio-intellectual-historical phenomenon.

Apr 28, 2021 · Can anyone explain what is meant by concepts like the “withering away of the state” in Marxist theory? It seems that they are interpreted in different ways: Richard Adamiack, ‘The “Withering Away” of the State: A Reconsideration’ Frederic L. Bender, “The Ambiguities of Marx’s concepts of...

The problem I invariably find with Kant, Fichte, Schelling, et al, is the enormously complicated and voluminous nature of their works. I am very much a Kant fan, and also have a lot of time for Schopenhauer, but as when you get into the intricacies of later German idealism, the whole thing tends to collapse under the weight of its own verbiage.

Jan 18, 2025 · Something Fichte was very fond of saying, I believe. I've also been exploring similar themes through the perspective of phenomenology of biology, Evan Thompson and Hans Jonas. Quite a different topic to the essay in the OP however. — Wayfarer