I-Hood as the Speculative Ground of Fichteâs Real Ethics

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This article considers how the I furnishes a ground for the reality or applicability of the moral principle, or the synthetic unification of the higher and the lower powers of desire, through its originally determined nature. It argues that the nature of I-hood as an immediate unity of seeing and being, an absolute identity of the subjective and objective, is key to establishing the moral principleâs applicability. On its basis, Fichte envisages an originally determined system of drives and feelings on the one side, and of ends on the other, in and through which each of our dutiful actions in each given situation is determined. For Fichte, the question of the moral lawâs application has more to do with demonstrating the moral lawâs applicability as a principium executionis (or what is the same, the real, practical efficacy of reason) than with employing the law as a discursive criterion for deciding whether actions are dutiful or not. The article clarifies this point by reference to Rehbergâs critique of Kantâs ethics.

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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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  - Intellectual History
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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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