Facticity and Genesis: Tracking Fichteâs Method in the Berlin Wissenschaftslehre

G.Â Anthony Bruno

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The concept of facticity denotes conditions of experience whose necessity is not logical yet whose contingency is not empirical. Although often associated with Heidegger, Fichte coins âfacticityâ in his Berlin period to refer to the conclusion of Kantâs metaphysical deduction of the categories, which he argues leaves it a contingent matter that we have the conditions of experience that we do. Such rhapsodic or factical conditions, he argues, must follow necessarily, independent of empirical givenness, from the I through a process of âgenesis.â I reconstruct Fichteâs argument by (1) tracing the origin of his neologism, (2) presenting his Jena critique of Kantâs rhapsodic appeal to the forms of judgment, and (3) illustrating the Jena periodâs continuity with the Berlin periodâs genetic method, while noting a methodological shift whereby Fichte directs his critique against his own doctrine of intellectual intuition in order to eliminate its âfactical terms.â

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The Enigma of Fichteâs First Principles

Series:Â Fichte-Studien, Volume: 49

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004459793

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 24 Mar 2021

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- History
  - Intellectual History
- Philosophy

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Teil 1 / Part 1 Fichteâs Earliest Reflections on First Principles

Teil 2 / Part 2 The First Principles of the Wissenschaftslehre

Teil 3 / Part 3 The First Principles of the Sub-Disciplines of the Wissenschaftslehre

Teil 4 / Part 4 Freie BeitrÃ¤ge

Teil 5 / Part 5 Rezensionen

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