Foundations of the Science of Knowledge

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Foundations of the Science of Knowledge
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Author Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Original titleGrundlage der gesammtena Wissenschaftslehre
LanguageGerman
Subject Epistemology
Publication date
1794/1795
Publication placeGermany
Media typePrint
Pages324 (1982 Cambridge University Press edition)
ISBN 978-0521270502
agesamten in modern German.

Foundations of the Science of Knowledge (German : Grundlage der gesammten Wissenschaftslehre) is a 1794/1795 book by the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte. Based on lectures Fichte had delivered as a professor of philosophy at the University of Jena. [1] Fichte created his own system of transcendental philosophy in his book. [2]

Contents

Ideas

Science of Knowledge has first established Fichte's independent philosophy. [3] The contents of the book, which were divided into eleven sections, were crucial in the way the thinker has grounded philosophy as - for the first time - a part of epistemology. [4] In the book, Fichte has also claimed that an "experiencer" must be tacitly aware that he is experiencing in order to lead to "noticing". [5] This articulated his view that an individual's experience is essentially the experiencing of the act of experiencing so that his so-called "Absolutely Unconditioned Principle" of all experience is that "the I posits itself". [5]

Reception

In 1798, the German romantic Friedrich Schlegel identified the Wissenschaftslehre, together with the French Revolution and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship , as "the most important trend-setting events (Tendenzen) of the age." [6]

Michael Inwood believes that the work is close in spirit to the works of Edmund Husserl, including the Ideas (1913) and the Cartesian Meditations (1931). [7]

The Wissenschaftslehre has been described by Roger Scruton as being both "immensely difficult" and "rough-hewn and uncouth". [1]

See also

References

Notes

  1. 1 2 Scruton 2000. p. 208.
  2. ↑ "Fichte, Johann Gottlieb | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy" . Retrieved 2023-12-27.
  3. ↑ Zack, Naomi (2009-09-01). The Handy Philosophy Answer Book . Canton, MI: Visible Ink Press. pp.  224. ISBN   9781578592265.
  4. ↑ Henrich, Dieter (2003). Between Kant and Hegel . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. pp.  208. ISBN   0674007735.
  5. 1 2 Gottlieb, Gabriel (2016). Fichte's Foundations of Natural Right. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 141. ISBN   9781107078147.
  6. ↑ Seidel 1993. p. 1.
  7. ↑ Inwood 2005. p. 410.

Bibliography

  • Inwood, M. J. (2005). Honderich, Ted (ed.). The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   0-19-926479-1.
  • Scruton, Roger (2000). Kenny, Anthony (ed.). The Oxford History of Western Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   0-19-289329-7.
  • Seidel, George J. (1993). Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre of 1794. A Commentary on Part 1. Purdue University Research Foundation: Purdue University Press. ISBN   1-55753-017-3.


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