Fichte, theorist of the "I" - The Philosophy Forum
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 …
Clear distinction between Objective and Absolute Idealism
Dec 10, 2021 · Could anyone clarify the distinction between Objective and Absolute Idealism? I need the main differential elements between the two philosophical points of view. Thanks in …
The Book that Broke the World: Hegel’s “Phenomenology of Spirit”
Oct 22, 2022 · According to Walter Kaufmann, Johann Gottlieb Fichte introduced the so-called “Hegelian dialectic” and Friedrich Schelling popularized it; Hegel never once uses these terms …
A post-metaphysical (mis-)reading of Fichte (irrationalism/egoism)
Jun 30, 2017 · Yes, Fichte writes of faith, but clearly the supreme "spook" of ideal universal reason or Truth is not abandoned in order to go backwards toward a belief in ghosts and …
Nature of the Philosophical Project - The Philosophy Forum
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 …
Marxist concept of “withering away of the state”
Apr 28, 2021 · The idea of the disappearance of the State arises as an ideal in Kant (as a cosmopolitan society) and explicitly in Fichte. Every state that serves what it claims to serve …
How could someone discover that they are bad at reasoning?
If reason functions as a social product (I think Habermas says something like that (perhaps Fichte to some extent too)) then it may be that reason can be instilled into this individual viz. …
Reading group: Negative Dialectics by Theodor Adorno
May 9, 2025 · This is a reading group for Theodor Adorno's Negative Dialectics. We'll begin with Lectures on Negative Dialectics: Fragments of a Lecture Course 1965/1966 and then move on …
Aristotle and Idealism - The Philosophy Forum
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 …
What to do, what to do? - The Philosophy Forum
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 …