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Single Idea 23228
[filed under theme 8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic
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Full Idea
The principle of activity, of generation and becoming in and for itself, is purely in that force itself and not in anything outside it…; the force is not driven or set in motion, it sets itself in motion.
Gist of Idea
The principle of activity and generation is found in a self-moving basic force
Source
Johann Fichte (The Vocation of Man [1800], 1)
Book Ref
Fichte,Johann G.: 'The Vocation of Man', ed/tr. Preuss,Peter [Hackett 1987], p.8
A Reaction
A good account of primitive powers, as self-motivating forces. I can't think what else could be fundamental to nature. This whole passage of Fichte expounds a powers ontology.
Related Idea
Idea 23230
Nature contains a fundamental force of thought [Fichte]
The
48 ideas
from Johann Fichte
22015
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The thing-in-itself is an empty dream
[Fichte, by Pinkard]
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22062
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Mental presentation are not empirical, but concern the strivings of the self
[Fichte]
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22018
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Necessary truths derive from basic assertion and negation
[Fichte, by Pinkard]
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22032
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Fichte's key claim was that the subjective-objective distinction must itself be subjective
[Fichte, by Pinkard]
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22024
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Fichte's subjectivity struggles to then give any account of objectivity
[Pinkard on Fichte]
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22017
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Normativity needs the possibility of negation, in affirmation and denial
[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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22060
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The Self is the spontaneity, self-relatedness and unity needed for knowledge
[Fichte, by Siep]
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22066
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Novalis sought a much wider concept of the ego than Fichte's proposal
[Novalis on Fichte]
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22016
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The self is not a 'thing', but what emerges from an assertion of normativity
[Fichte, by Pinkard]
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22061
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Judgement is distinguishing concepts, and seeing their relations
[Fichte, by Siep]
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22023
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Fichte's idea of spontaneity implied that nothing counts unless we give it status
[Fichte, by Pinkard]
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22065
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Fichte reduces nature to a lifeless immobility
[Schlegel,F on Fichte]
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22019
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Consciousness of an object always entails awareness of the self
[Fichte]
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22020
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We only see ourselves as self-conscious and rational in relation to other rationalities
[Fichte]
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22063
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Effective individuals must posit a specific material body for themselves
[Fichte]
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23231
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I immediately know myself, and anything beyond that is an inference
[Fichte]
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23227
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Each object has a precise number of properties, each to a precise degree
[Fichte]
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23228
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The principle of activity and generation is found in a self-moving basic force
[Fichte]
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23232
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Sufficient reason makes the transition from the particular to the general
[Fichte]
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23229
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Nature is wholly interconnected, and the tiniest change affects everything
[Fichte]
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23230
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Nature contains a fundamental force of thought
[Fichte]
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23238
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If life lacks love it becomes destruction
[Fichte]
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23236
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Freedom means making yourself become true to your essential nature
[Fichte]
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23237
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The capacity for freedom is above the laws of nature, with its own power of purpose and will
[Fichte]
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23235
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I want independent control of the fundamental cause of my decisions
[Fichte]
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23233
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The will is awareness of one of our inner natural forces
[Fichte]
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23234
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I cannot change the nature which has been determined for me
[Fichte]
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23239
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The self is, apart from outward behaviour, a drive in your nature
[Fichte]
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23240
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We can't know by sight or hearing without realising that we are doing so
[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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23242
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Consciousness has two parts, passively receiving sensation, and actively causing productions
[Fichte]
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23243
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Consciousness of external things is always accompanied by an unnoticed consciousness of self
[Fichte]
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23244
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Forming purposes is absolutely free, and produces something from nothing
[Fichte]
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23246
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Faith is not knowledge; it is a decision of the will
[Fichte]
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23245
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Knowledge can't be its own foundation; there has to be regress of higher and higher authorities
[Fichte]
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23247
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The need to act produces consciousness, and practical reason is the root of all reason
[Fichte]
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21966
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Self-consciousness is the basis of knowledge, and knowing something is knowing myself
[Fichte]
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21967
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There is nothing to say about anything which is outside my consciousness
[Fichte]
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21969
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Awareness of reality comes from the free activity of consciousness
[Fichte]
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21973
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Fichte believed in things-in-themselves
[Fichte, by Moore,AW]
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20951
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The absolute I divides into consciousness, and a world which is not-I
[Fichte, by Bowie]
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6912
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For Fichte there is no God outside the ego, and 'our religion is reason'
[Fichte, by Feuerbach]
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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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21964
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Reason arises from freedom, so philosophy starts from the self, and not from the laws of nature
[Fichte]
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21968
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Abandon the thing-in-itself; things only exist in relation to our thinking
[Fichte]
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21970
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Philosophy attains its goal if one person feels perfect accord between their system and experience
[Fichte]
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21965
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Spinoza could not actually believe his determinism, because living requires free will
[Fichte]
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