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Ideas of Johann Fichte, by Text
[German, 1762 - 1814, Born Leipzig. Taught at the University of Jena. In 1810 the first Professor of Philosophy at the new University of Berlin.]
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1792
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Review of 'Aenesidemus'
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p.107
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22015
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The thing-in-itself is an empty dream [Pinkard]
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Wks I:22
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p.62
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22062
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Mental presentation are not empirical, but concern the strivings of the self
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1794
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The Science of Knowing (Wissenschaftslehre) [1st ed]
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p.58
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22060
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The Self is the spontaneity, self-relatedness and unity needed for knowledge [Siep]
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p.59
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22061
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Judgement is distinguishing concepts, and seeing their relations [Siep]
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p.71
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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]
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p.72
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22065
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Fichte reduces nature to a lifeless immobility [Schlegel,F]
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p.72
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22066
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Novalis sought a much wider concept of the ego than Fichte's proposal [Novalis]
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p.114
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22016
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The self is not a 'thing', but what emerges from an assertion of normativity [Pinkard]
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p.115
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22017
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Normativity needs the possibility of negation, in affirmation and denial [Pinkard]
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p.116
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22018
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Necessary truths from basic assertion and negation [Pinkard]
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p.134
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22023
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Fichte's idea of spontaneity implied that nothing counts unless we give it status [Pinkard]
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p.142
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22024
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Fichte's subjectivity struggles to then give any account of objectivity [Pinkard]
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p.219
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22032
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Fichte's key claim was that the subjective-objective distinction must itself be subjective [Pinkard]
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p.112
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p.119
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22019
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Consciousness of an object always entails awareness of the self
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p.8
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p.119
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22020
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We only see ourselves as self-conscious and rational in relation to other rationalities
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1797
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The Science of Rights
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p.87
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p.64
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22063
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Effective individuals must posit a specific material body for themselves
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p.29
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6912
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For Fichte there is no God outside the ego, and 'our religion is reason' [Feuerbach]
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p.69
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20951
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The absolute I divides into consciousness, and a world which is not-I [Bowie]
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p.165
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21973
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Fichte believed in things-in-themselves [Moore,AW]
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I p.425
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p.64
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21914
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We can deduce experience from self-consciousness, without the thing-in-itself
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I:298
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p.149
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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
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I:501
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p.154
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21968
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Abandon the thing-in-itself; things only exist in relation to our thinking
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I:512
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p.159
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21970
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Philosophy attains its goal if one person feels perfect accord between their system and experience
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I:513
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p.149
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21965
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Spinoza could not actually believe his determinism, because living requires free will
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p.37
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p.150
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21966
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Self-consciousness is the basis of knowledge, and knowing something is knowing myself
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p.74
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p.154
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21967
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There is nothing to say about anything which is outside my consciousness
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p.98
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p.157
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21969
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Awareness of reality comes from the free activity of consciousness
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