The science of knowledge y J.G. Fichte. Tr. from the German A.E. Kroeger
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- English
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- ~110,000 words · 525 passages
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- APAJohann Fichte. (n.d.). The science of knowledge y J.G. Fichte. Tr. from the German A.E. Kroeger. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/johann-fichte/the-science-of-knowledge-y-j-g-fichte-tr-from-the-german-a-e-kroeger
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What it is about
Fichte's 'Wissenschaftslehre', of 1794: the first attempt to rebuild the whole of Kant's philosophy from a single principle.
Context and history
The English title misleads a little: 'Wissenschaftslehre' means doctrine of science in the sense of the foundation of all knowing, not a philosophy of the natural sciences. Fichte starts from Kant and finds him unfinished: if the thing in itself is unknowable, he says, there is no need to posit it. His starting point is the act by which the I posits itself, and from that he derives, by opposition and limitation, the not-I and all the rest. It is among the hardest texts there are, and Fichte rewrote it many times without ever being satisfied. Without it neither Schelling nor Hegel is intelligible. Kroeger's translation is of the nineteenth century and corresponds to the first version, not the later ones.
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