The vocation of man
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text
- Extent:
- ~64,800 words · 308 passages
Cite this work
- APAJohann Fichte. (n.d.). The vocation of man. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/johann-fichte/the-vocation-of-man
- MLAJohann Fichte. "The vocation of man." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/johann-fichte/the-vocation-of-man.
- ChicagoJohann Fichte. The vocation of man. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/johann-fichte/the-vocation-of-man.
What it is about
The Vocation of Man (1800): doubt, knowledge and faith, in three parts.
Context and history
Written deliberately for readers who were not professional philosophers, after the atheism charge had cost him his chair. It begins with an I trapped in a determined world and ends with faith as the only way out — a route Fichte makes the reader travel rather than explaining it to them. An old English translation. The catalogue also holds Fichte in German; the original is what should be cited.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
WHATEVER in the more recent Philosophy is useful beyond the limits of the schools will form the contents of this work, set forth in that order in which it would naturally present itself to unscientific thought. The more profound arguments by which subtle objections and extravagances of over-refined minds are to be met, whatever is but the foundation of other Positive Science, — and lastly, whatever belongs to Pedagogy in its widest sense, that is, to the deliberate and arbitrary Education of the Human Race, — shall remain beyond the limits of our task. These objections are not made by the natural understanding;— Positive Science it leaves to Scholars by profession; and the Education of the Human Race, in so far as that depends upon human effort, to its appointed Teachers and Statesmen. This book is therefore not intended for philosophers by profession, who will find nothing in it that has not been already set forth in other writings of the same author. It ought to be intelligible to all readers who are able to understand a book at all. To those who wish only to repeat, in somewhat varied order, certain phrases which they have already learned by rote, and who mistake this business of the memory for understanding, it will doubtless be found unintelligible. It ought to attract and animate the reader, and to xi xii PREFACE. elevate him from the world of sense into a region of transcendental thought; — at least the author is conscious that he has not entered upon his task without such inspiration. Often indeed, the fire with which we commence an undertaking disappears during the toil of execution; and thus, at the conclusion of a work, we are in danger of doing ourselves injustice upon this point. In short, whether the author has succeeded in attaining his object or not, can be determined only by the effect which the work shall produce on the readers to whom it is addressed, and in this the author has no voice. I must, however, remind my reader that the "
What is The vocation of man about?Summarize The vocation of man brieflyWhat are the key ideas in The vocation of man?
← Back to Johann Fichte