Fichte The System Of Ethics

Author : Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 448 pages
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Release : 2005-11-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139447133

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Fichte: The System of Ethics by Johann Gottlieb Fichte Pdf

Fichte's System of Ethics, published in 1798, is at once the most accessible presentation of its author's comprehensive philosophical project, The Science of Knowledge or Wissenschaftslehre, and the most important work in moral philosophy written between Kant and Hegel. Fichte's ethics integrates the discussion of our moral duties into the systematic framework of a transcendental theory of the human subject. Its major philosophical themes include the practical nature of self-consciousness, the relation between reason and volition, the essential role of the drives in human willing, the possibility of changing the natural world, the reality of one's own body, the reality of other human beings, and the practical necessity of social relations between human beings. This volume offers a translation of the work together with an introduction that sets it in its philosophical and historical contexts.

Author : Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521577675

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Fichte: The System of Ethics by Johann Gottlieb Fichte Pdf

Fichte's System of Ethics, originally published in 1798, is at once the most accessible presentation of its author's comprehensive philosophical project, The Science of Knowledge or Wissenschaftslehre, and the most important work in moral philosophy written between Kant and Hegel. This study integrates the discussion of our moral duties into the systematic framework of a transcendental theory of the human subject. Ranging over numerous important philosophical themes, the volume offers a new translation of the work together with an introduction that sets it in its philosophical and historical contexts.

Author : Allen W. Wood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191079504

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Fichte's Ethical Thought by Allen W. Wood Pdf

Allen W. Wood presents the first book-length systematic exposition in English of Fichte's most important ethical work, the System of Ethics (1798). He places this work in the context of Fichte's life and career, of his philosophical system as conceived in the later Jena period, and in relation to his philosophy of right or justice and politics. Wood discusses Fichte's defense of freedom of the will, his grounding of the moral principle, theory of moral conscience, transcendental deduction of intersubjectivity, and his conception of free rational communication and the rational society. He develops and emphasizes the social and political radicalism of Fichte's moral and political philosophy, and brings out the philosophical interest of Fichte's positions and arguments for present day philosophy. Fichte's Ethical Thought defends the position that Fichte is a major thinker in the history of ethics, and the most important figure in the history of modern continental philosophy in the past two centuries.

Author : Michelle Kosch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198809661

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Independence of Nature in Fichte's Ethics by Michelle Kosch Pdf

One of Fichte's most important ideas - that nature can place limits on our ability to govern ourselves, and that anyone who values autonomy is thereby committed to the value of basic research and of the development of autonomy-enhancing technologies - has received little attention in the interpretative literature on Fichte, and has little currency in contemporary ethics. This volume aims to address both deficits. Beginning from a reconstruction of Fichte's theory of rational agency, this volume examines his arguments for the thesis that rational agency must have two constitutive ends: substantive and formal independence. It argues for a novel interpretation of Fichte's conception of substantive independence, and shows how Fichte's account of moral duties is derived from the end of substantive independence on that conception. It also argues for a new interpretation of Fichte's conception of formal independence, and explains why the usual understanding of this end as providing direct guidance for action must be mistaken. It encompasses a systematic reconstruction of Fichte's first-order claims in normative ethics and the philosophy of right.

Author : Owen Ware
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190086602

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Fichte's Moral Philosophy by Owen Ware Pdf

Owen Ware here develops and defends a novel interpretation of Fichte's moral philosophy as an ethics of wholeness. While virtually forgotten for most of the twentieth century, Fichte's System of Ethics (1798) is now recognized by scholars as a masterpiece in the history of post-Kantian philosophy, as well as a key text for understanding the work of later German idealist thinkers. This book provides a careful examination of the intellectual context in which Fichte's moral philosophy evolved, and of the specific arguments he offers in response to Kant and his immediate successors. A distinctive feature of this study is a focus on the foundational concepts of Fichte's ethics--freedom, morality, feeling, conscience, community--and their connection to his innovative but largely misunderstood theory of drives. By way of conclusion, the book shows that what appears to be two conflicting commitments in Fichte's ethics--a commitment to the feelings of one's conscience and a commitment to engage in open dialogue with others--are two aspects of his theory of moral perfection. The result is a sharp understanding of Fichte's System of Ethics as offering a compelling resolution to the personal and interpersonal dimensions of moral life

Author : Stefano Bacin,Owen Ware
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108727808

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Fichte's System of Ethics by Stefano Bacin,Owen Ware Pdf

The System of Ethics was published at the height of Fichte's academic career and marks the culmination of his philosophical development in Jena. Much more than a treatise on ethics narrowly construed, the System of Ethics presents a unified synthesis of Fichte's core philosophical ideas, including the principle I-hood, self-activity and self-consciousness, and also contains his most detailed treatment of action and agency. This volume brings together an international group of leading scholars on Fichte, and is the first of its kind in English to offer critical and interpretive perspectives on this work, covering topics such as normativity, belief, justification, desire, duty, and the ethical life. It will be an essential guide for scholars wanting to deepen their understanding of Fichte's ethical thought, as well as for those interested in the history of ethics more broadly.

Author : Stefano Bacin,Owen Ware
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108480628

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Fichte's System of Ethics by Stefano Bacin,Owen Ware Pdf

These essays shed light on one of Fichte's most important works, the System of Ethics.

Author : Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1982-08-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521270502

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The Science of Knowledge by Johann Gottlieb Fichte Pdf

Fichte's philosophy was pivotal in the development of nineteenth-century German idealism from Kant's critical philosophy. Fichte believed that Kant had posed the one fundamental question of philosophy: how is our experience of the world, as spatio-temporal and law-governed, possible? The answer he works out here is one of the most uncomprimising forms of philosophical idealism. The isolated absolute self is presented as the sole source from which the forms of human knowledge can be dialectically deduced. In the 1974 version of Wissenschaftslehre is Fichte's best known philosophical work; and the two Introductions which Fichte added later throw a helpful light on the system. This, the only modern and reliable translation, was first published in America in 1970, and is now made available again, with corrections, for all those with an interest in Fichte and in German Idealism.

Author : Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 1107142040

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The System of Ethics by Johann Gottlieb Fichte Pdf

Fichte's System of Ethics, published in 1798, is the most important work in moral philosophy written between Kant and Hegel. This volume offers a new translation of the work together with an introduction that sets it in its philosophical and historical contexts.

Author : Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015026498082

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The Science of Ethics as Based on the Science of Knowledge by Johann Gottlieb Fichte Pdf

Author : David James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139495417

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Fichte's Social and Political Philosophy by David James Pdf

In this study of Fichte's social and political philosophy, David James offers an interpretation of Fichte's most famous writings in this area, including his Foundations of Natural Right and Addresses to the German Nation, centred on two main themes: property and virtue. These themes provide the basis for a discussion of such issues as what it means to guarantee the freedom of all the citizens of a state, the problem of unequal relations of economic dependence between states, and the differences and connections between the legal and political sphere of right and morality. James also relates Fichte's central social and political ideas to those of other important figures in the history of philosophy, including Locke, Kant and Hegel, as well as to the radical phase of the French Revolution. His account will be of importance to all who are interested in Fichte's philosophy and its intellectual and political context.

Author : J. G. Fichte
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438458694

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Lectures on the Theory of Ethics (1812) by J. G. Fichte Pdf

Lectures from the late period of Fichte’s career, never before available in English. Translated here for the first time into English, this text furnishes a new window into the final phase of Fichte’s career. Delivered in the summer of 1812 at the newly founded University of Berlin, Fichte’s lectures on ethics explore some of the key concepts and issues in his evolving system of radical idealism. Addressing moral theory, the theory of education, the philosophy of history, and the philosophy of religion, Fichte engages both directly and indirectly with some of his most important contemporaries and philosophical rivals, including Kant, Schelling, and Hegel. Benjamin D. Crowe’s translation includes extensive annotations and a German-English glossary. His introduction situates the text systematically, historically, and institutionally within an era of cultural ferment and intellectual experimentation, and includes a bibliography of recent scholarship on Fichte’s moral theory and on the final period of his career.

Author : Owen Ware
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 9780190086596

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Fichte's Moral Philosophy by Owen Ware Pdf

Owen Ware here develops and defends a novel interpretation of Fichte's moral philosophy as an ethics of wholeness. While virtually forgotten for most of the twentieth century, Fichte's System of Ethics (1798) is now recognized by scholars as a masterpiece in the history of post-Kantian philosophy, as well as a key text for understanding the work of later German idealist thinkers. This book provides a careful examination of the intellectual context in which Fichte's moral philosophy evolved, and of the specific arguments he offers in response to Kant and his immediate successors. A distinctive feature of this study is a focus on the foundational concepts of Fichte's ethics--freedom, morality, feeling, conscience, community--and their connection to his innovative but largely misunderstood theory of drives. By way of conclusion, the book shows that what appears to be two conflicting commitments in Fichte's ethics--a commitment to the feelings of one's conscience and a commitment to engage in open dialogue with others--are two aspects of his theory of moral perfection. The result is a sharp understanding of Fichte's System of Ethics as offering a compelling resolution to the personal and interpersonal dimensions of moral life

Author : David W. Wood
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004459793

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The Enigma of Fichte’s First Principles by David W. Wood Pdf

This volume of articles in English by an international team of scholars presents new critical perspectives on the first principles of J.G. Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre and some of the key sub-disciplines of his philosophy.

Author : Daniel Breazeale
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199233632

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Thinking Through the Wissenschaftslehre by Daniel Breazeale Pdf

Daniel Breazeale presents a critical study of the early philosophy of J. G. Fichte, and the version of the Wissenschaftslehre that Fichte developed between 1794 and 1799. He examines what Fichte was trying to accomplish and how he proposed to do so, and explores the difficulties implicit in his project and his strategies for overcoming them.