more on this theme | more from this thinker
Full Idea
Fichte retained a broadly Kantian conception of how things are in themselves.
Gist of Idea
Fichte believed in things-in-themselves
Source
report of Johann Fichte (works [1798]) by A.W. Moore - The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics 07.2
Book Ref
Moore,A.W.: 'The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics' [CUP 2013], p.165
A Reaction
The contrast is between those who believe in the thing-in-itself, while admitting that we can't know it, and those who deny such a thing. The debate returned 130 years later as verificationism in language.
Related Ideas
Idea 21972 Hegel, unlike Kant, said how things appear is the same as how things are [Hegel, by Moore,AW]
Idea 21968 Abandon the thing-in-itself; things only exist in relation to our thinking [Fichte]
| 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] |