Fichte's ethical thought / Allen W. Wood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wood, Allen W., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 1762-1814--Ethics.

Fichte, Johann Gottlieb.

Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 1762-1814. System der Sittenlehre nach den Prinzipien der Wissenschaftslehre.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Allen W. Wood presents the first book-length systematic exposition in English of Fichte's most important ethical work, the System of Ethics (1798). He develops and emphasizes the social and political radicalism of Fichte's moral and political philosophy, and illuminates the philosophical interest of Fichte's arguments for present day philosophy.

Contents:

Cover; Fichte's Ethical Thought; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Sources; 1: Who was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?; 1: Background and Education; 2: An Impoverished Upstart Philosopher Makes his Way in a Hostile World; 3: Professor in Jena: the Years of Greatness; 4: Conflicts; 5: The Atheism Controversy; 6: Exile in Berlin; 7: The Napoleonic War; 8: Last Years: Professor at the Humboldt University; 2: Transcendental Philosophy: The Jena Doctrine of Science; 1: Philosophy and Common Sense; 2: Rejection of Dogmatism or the "Thing in Itself"; 3: Transcendental Idealism

4: The Epistemology of the Jena Doctrine of Science5: The First Principle; 6: The Summons to Self-Activity; 7: Intellectual Intuition; 8: Moving Beyond the First Principle; 9: The Synthetic Method; 3: Freedom and Intersubjectivity: The Conditions of Action; 1: Absolute Freedom; 2: The Conviction that We are Free; 3: Freedom as a Presupposition of Theoretical Reason; 4: Intersubjectivity as a Transcendental Problem; 5: Deduction of the Object of the I's Present Action; 6: Deduction of the Summons; 7: The Inference to Other Rational Beings as the Cause of the Summons

8: The Summons as Education or Upbringing9: The Summons as the Ground of Individuality; 4: Moral Authority: Deduction of the Principle of Morality; 1: The Concept of Moral Authority; 2: Questioning Moral Authority; 3: Finding Oneself as Will; 4: The Pure Being or True Essence of Willing; 5: The Drive for Self-Activity for its Own Sake; 6: Explication of Fichte's Deduction; 7: Self-Legislation; 8: Does Fichte have a Metaethics?; 5: Conscience: The Applicability of the Principle of Morality; 1: Fichte's Systematic Project: its Aims and Structure

2: A Transcendental Theory of the Human Practical Condition3: The Natural Drive and the Pure Drive; 4: What is Material Freedom?; 5: The Ethical Drive; 6: Theoretical Judgment and Conscientious Conviction; 7: The Certainty of Conscience; 8: Self-Deception and Moral Conversion; 6: The Self-Sufficiency of Reason: The Systematic Doctrine of Duties; 1: The Final End of Self-Sufficiency: a Form of Consequentialism?; 2: The Final End as a Recursive Projection of our Finite Ends; 3: The Antinomy: Self-Sufficiency vs. the Conditions of I-hood

4: The Body: No Enjoyment Only for its Own Sake5: Fichte's "Rigorism": No Indifferent Actions, No Meritorious Actions; 6: Kierkegaard's "Ethical Man" as a Fichtean; 7: Cognition: Fichte's Ethics of Belief; 8: Intersubjectivity: the Limits of Individual Self-Sufficiency; 9: Moral Truth is Constituted by Universal Rational Agreement; 7: The Social Unity of Reason: The Human Vocation; 1: Ethical Intersubjectivity in Kant and Fichte; 2: The Republic of Scholars; 3: The Human Social Vocation; 4: The Final End of Reason; 5: End in Itself or Tool of the Moral Law?; 6: My Own Happiness

7: The Taxonomy of Duties

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-882243-X

0-19-182270-1

0-19-107949-9