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Single Idea 22061

[filed under theme 18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 6. Judgement / a. Nature of Judgement ]

Full Idea

For Fichte, to judge means to distinguish concepts from one another and to place them in relationship to one another.

Gist of Idea

Judgement is distinguishing concepts, and seeing their relations

Source

report of Johann Fichte (The Science of Knowing (Wissenschaftslehre) [1st ed] [1794]) by Ludwig Siep - Fichte p.59

Book Ref

'A Companion to Continental Philosophy', ed/tr. Critchley,S/Schroeder,W [Blackwell 1999], p.59

A Reaction

This idea of Fichte's seems to be the key one for Hegel, and hence (I presume) it is the lynchpin of German Idealism. It seems to describe mathematical knowledge quite well. I don't think it fits judging whether there is a snake in the grass.

The 13 ideas from 'The Science of Knowing (Wissenschaftslehre) [1st ed]'

22024 Fichte's subjectivity struggles to then give any account of objectivity [Pinkard on Fichte]
22017 Normativity needs the possibility of negation, in affirmation and denial [Fichte, by Pinkard]
22018 Necessary truths derive from basic assertion and negation [Fichte, by Pinkard]
22064 Fichte's logic is much too narrow, and doesn't deduce ethics, art, society or life [Schlegel,F on Fichte]
22032 Fichte's key claim was that the subjective-objective distinction must itself be subjective [Fichte, by Pinkard]
22060 The Self is the spontaneity, self-relatedness and unity needed for knowledge [Fichte, by Siep]
22066 Novalis sought a much wider concept of the ego than Fichte's proposal [Novalis on Fichte]
22016 The self is not a 'thing', but what emerges from an assertion of normativity [Fichte, by Pinkard]
22061 Judgement is distinguishing concepts, and seeing their relations [Fichte, by Siep]
22023 Fichte's idea of spontaneity implied that nothing counts unless we give it status [Fichte, by Pinkard]
22065 Fichte reduces nature to a lifeless immobility [Schlegel,F on Fichte]
22019 Consciousness of an object always entails awareness of the self [Fichte]
22020 We only see ourselves as self-conscious and rational in relation to other rationalities [Fichte]