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[filed under theme 11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism
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Full Idea
Fichte said that the thing-in-itself (which both Reinhold and Schulze accepted) is only "a piece of whimsy, a pipe-dream, a non-thought".
Gist of Idea
The thing-in-itself is an empty dream
Source
report of Johann Fichte (Review of 'Aenesidemus' [1792]) by Terry Pinkard - German Philosophy 1760-1860 05
Book Ref
Pinkard,Terry: 'German Philosophy 1760-1860' [CUP 2002], p.107
A Reaction
This seems to be a key moment in German philosophy, and the first step towards the idealist interpretation of Kant.
The
23 ideas
with the same theme
[reality exists with our cognitive structure]:
22012
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Kant says things-in-themselves cause sensations, but then makes causation transcendental!
[Henry of Ghent, by Pinkard]
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6909
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In Kantian idealism, objects fit understanding, not vice versa
[Kant, by Feuerbach]
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6910
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Kant's idealism is a limited idealism based on the viewpoint of empiricism
[Kant, by Feuerbach]
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21440
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For Kant experience is either structured like reality, or generates reality's structure
[Kant, by Gardner]
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22006
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The concepts that make judgeable experiences possible are created spontaneously
[Kant, by Pinkard]
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21442
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'Transcendental' cognition concerns what can be known a priori of its mode
[Kant]
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5568
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We cannot know things in themselves, but are confined to appearances
[Kant]
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5581
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We have proved that bodies are appearances of the outer senses, not things in themselves
[Kant]
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21956
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Everything we intuit is merely a representation, with no external existence (Transcendental Idealism)
[Kant]
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16923
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I admit there are bodies outside us
[Kant]
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21441
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'Transcendental' is not beyond experience, but a prerequisite of experience
[Kant]
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22068
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Poetry is transcendental when it connects the ideal to the real
[Schlegel,F]
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22015
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The thing-in-itself is an empty dream
[Fichte, by Pinkard]
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22064
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Fichte's logic is much too narrow, and doesn't deduce ethics, art, society or life
[Schlegel,F on Fichte]
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23241
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I am myself, but not the external object; so I only sense myself, and not the object
[Fichte]
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21973
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Fichte believed in things-in-themselves
[Fichte, by Moore,AW]
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21914
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We can deduce experience from self-consciousness, without the thing-in-itself
[Fichte]
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21919
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Object for a subject and representation are the same thing
[Schopenhauer]
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21913
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Kant rightly separates appearance and thing-in-itself
[Schopenhauer]
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6908
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Consciousness is absolute reality, and everything exists through consciousness
[Feuerbach]
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21958
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Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality
[Moore,AW]
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22049
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Transcendental idealism aims to explain objectivity through subjectivity
[Bowie]
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19651
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Unlike speculative idealism, transcendental idealism assumes the mind is embodied
[Meillassoux]
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