19 ideas
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] |
9329 | Justification is coherence with a background system; if irrefutable, it is knowledge [Lehrer] |
22020 | We only see ourselves as self-conscious and rational in relation to other rationalities [Fichte] |
9330 | Generalization seems to be more fundamental to minds than spotting similarities [Lehrer] |
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] |
22019 | Consciousness of an object always entails awareness of the self [Fichte] |
9328 | All conscious states can be immediately known when attention is directed to them [Lehrer] |
22061 | Judgement is distinguishing concepts, and seeing their relations [Fichte, by Siep] |
20949 | Study the use of words, not their origins [Herder] |
22023 | Fichte's idea of spontaneity implied that nothing counts unless we give it status [Fichte, by Pinkard] |
7669 | We cannot attain all the ideals of every culture, so there cannot be a perfect life [Herder, by Berlin] |
7668 | Herder invented the idea of being rooted in (or cut off from) a home or a group [Herder, by Berlin] |
22065 | Fichte reduces nature to a lifeless immobility [Schlegel,F on Fichte] |