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Full Idea
We can abandon the thing-in-itself, and aim for 'a complete deduction of all experience from the possibility of self-consciousness'.
Gist of Idea
We can deduce experience from self-consciousness, without the thing-in-itself
Source
Johann Fichte (works [1798], I p.425), quoted by Peter B. Lewis - Schopenhauer 3
Book Ref
Lewis, Peter B.: 'Schopenhauer' [Reaktion Books 2012], p.64
A Reaction
German Idealism now looks to me like a weird abberation in the history of philosophy, though no doubt it has (like every philosophical theory) some supporters out there somewhere. Schopenhauer called this 'raving nonsense'.
Related Idea
Idea 21919 Object for a subject and representation are the same thing [Schopenhauer]
| 6912 | For Fichte there is no God outside the ego, and 'our religion is reason' [Fichte, by Feuerbach] |
| 21973 | Fichte believed in things-in-themselves [Fichte, by Moore,AW] |
| 20951 | The absolute I divides into consciousness, and a world which is not-I [Fichte, by Bowie] |
| 21914 | We can deduce experience from self-consciousness, without the thing-in-itself [Fichte] |
| 21964 | Reason arises from freedom, so philosophy starts from the self, and not from the laws of nature [Fichte] |
| 21968 | Abandon the thing-in-itself; things only exist in relation to our thinking [Fichte] |
| 21970 | Philosophy attains its goal if one person feels perfect accord between their system and experience [Fichte] |
| 21965 | Spinoza could not actually believe his determinism, because living requires free will [Fichte] |