Fichtes Social And Political Philosophy

Author : David James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139495410
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fichte's Social and Political Philosophy written by David James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of Fichte's social and political philosophy, David James offers an interpretation of Fichte's most famous writings in this area, including his Foundations of Natural Right and Addresses to the German Nation, centred on two main themes: property and virtue. These themes provide the basis for a discussion of such issues as what it means to guarantee the freedom of all the citizens of a state, the problem of unequal relations of economic dependence between states, and the differences and connections between the legal and political sphere of right and morality. James also relates Fichte's central social and political ideas to those of other important figures in the history of philosophy, including Locke, Kant and Hegel, as well as to the radical phase of the French Revolution. His account will be of importance to all who are interested in Fichte's philosophy and its intellectual and political context.

Author : Allen W. Wood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191079502
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fichte's Ethical Thought written by Allen W. Wood and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 places this work in the context of Fichte's life and career, of his philosophical system as conceived in the later Jena period, and in relation to his philosophy of right or justice and politics. Wood discusses Fichte's defense of freedom of the will, his grounding of the moral principle, theory of moral conscience, transcendental deduction of intersubjectivity, and his conception of free rational communication and the rational society. He develops and emphasizes the social and political radicalism of Fichte's moral and political philosophy, and brings out the philosophical interest of Fichte's positions and arguments for present day philosophy. Fichte's Ethical Thought defends the position that Fichte is a major thinker in the history of ethics, and the most important figure in the history of modern continental philosophy in the past two centuries.

Author : Frederick Neuhouser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521399388
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fichte's Theory of Subjectivity written by Frederick Neuhouser and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-10-26 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in English to elucidate the central issues in Fichte's work.

Author : Isaac Nakhimovsky
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400838754
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Closed Commercial State written by Isaac Nakhimovsky and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an important new account of Johann Gottlieb Fichte's Closed Commercial State, a major early nineteenth-century development of Rousseau and Kant's political thought. Isaac Nakhimovsky shows how Fichte reformulated Rousseau's constitutional politics and radicalized the economic implications of Kant's social contract theory with his defense of the right to work. Nakhimovsky argues that Fichte's sequel to Rousseau and Kant's writings on perpetual peace represents a pivotal moment in the intellectual history of the pacification of the West. Fichte claimed that Europe could not transform itself into a peaceful federation of constitutional republics unless economic life could be disentangled from the competitive dynamics of relations between states, and he asserted that this disentanglement required transitioning to a planned and largely self-sufficient national economy, made possible by a radical monetary policy. Fichte's ideas have resurfaced with nearly every crisis of globalization from the Napoleonic wars to the present, and his book remains a uniquely systematic and complete discussion of what John Maynard Keynes later termed "national self-sufficiency." Fichte's provocative contribution to the social contract tradition reminds us, Nakhimovsky concludes, that the combination of a liberal theory of the state with an open economy and international system is a much more contingent and precarious outcome than many recent theorists have tended to assume.

Author : David James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316404714
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fichte's Republic written by David James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-09 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Addresses to the German Nation (1808) is one of Fichte's best-known works. It is also his most controversial work because of its nationalist elements. In this book, David James places this text and its nationalism within the context provided by Fichte's philosophical, educational and moral project of creating a community governed by pure practical reason, in which his own foundational philosophical science or Wissenschaftslehre could achieve general recognition. Rather than marking a break in Fichte's philosophy, the Addresses to the German Nation and some lesser-known texts from the same period are shown to develop themes already present in his earlier writings. The themes discussed include the opposition between idealism and dogmatism, the role of Fichte's 'popular' lectures and writings in leading individuals to the standpoint of idealism, the view of history demanded by idealism and the role of the state in history.

Author : Anthony J. LaVopa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521791458
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fichte: The Self and the Calling of Philosophy, 1762-1799 written by Anthony J. LaVopa and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-23 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 2001, is a biographical study of the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte.

Author : Daniel Breazeale
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351550772
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rights, Bodies and Recognition written by Daniel Breazeale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German philosopher, Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814), has long been recognized as an important and original figure in the history of philosophy and Western thought and as a seminal influence upon the Romantic tradition. The essays in this book focus on Fichte's contributions in political theory as set out in his Foundations of Natural Right. Fichte was notorious as a political radical and his ideas in in political theory proved to be decisive influences upon his contemporaries and of striking relevance to current political dispute. This volume of essays, which examine such issues as Fichte as a social contract theorist, his theory of gender relations and his theories on punishment and the criminal law among many other topics, remedies what has been a striking lacuna in the existing scholarly literature.

Author : David James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316849007
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Fichte written by David James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814) was the founding figure of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, a branch of thought which grew out of Kant's critical philosophy. Fichte's work formed the crucial link between eighteenth-century Enlightenment thought and philosophical, as well as literary, Romanticism. Some of his ideas also foreshadow later nineteenth- and twentieth-century developments in philosophy and in political thought, including existentialism, nationalism and socialism. This volume offers essays on all the major aspects of Fichte's philosophy, ranging from the successive versions of his foundational philosophical science or Wissenschaftslehre, through his ethical and political thought, to his philosophies of history and religion. All the main stages of Fichte's philosophical career and development are charted, and his ideas are placed in their historical and intellectual context. New readers will find this the most convenient and accessible guide to Fichte currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Fichte.

Author : J. G. Fichte
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438440227
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Closed Commercial State written by J. G. Fichte and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-05-18 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appearing for the first time in a complete English translation, The Closed Commercial State represents the most sustained attempt of J. G. Fichte, the famed author of The Doctrine of Science, to apply idealistic philosophy to political economy. In the accompanying interpretive essay, Anthony Curtis Adler challenges the conventional scholarly view of The Closed Commercial State as a curious footnote to Fichte's thought. The Closed Commercial State, which Fichte himself regarded as his "best, most thought-through work," not only attests to a life-long interest in economics, but is of critical importance to his entire philosophical project. Carefully unpacking the philosophical nuances of Fichte's argument and its complex relationship to other texts in his oeuvre, Adler argues that The Closed Commercial State presents an understanding of the nature of history, and the relation of history to politics, that differs significantly from the teleological notions of history advanced by Schelling and later Hegel. This critical scholarly edition includes a German-English glossary, annotations, and page references to both major German editions.

Author : Michelle Kosch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198809662
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Independence of Nature in Fichte's Ethics written by Michelle Kosch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Fichte's most important ideas - that nature can place limits on our ability to govern ourselves, and that anyone who values autonomy is thereby committed to the value of basic research and of the development of autonomy-enhancing technologies - has received little attention in the interpretative literature on Fichte, and has little currency in contemporary ethics. This volume aims to address both deficits. Beginning from a reconstruction of Fichte's theory of rational agency, this volume examines his arguments for the thesis that rational agency must have two constitutive ends: substantive and formal independence. It argues for a novel interpretation of Fichte's conception of substantive independence, and shows how Fichte's account of moral duties is derived from the end of substantive independence on that conception. It also argues for a new interpretation of Fichte's conception of formal independence, and explains why the usual understanding of this end as providing direct guidance for action must be mistaken. It encompasses a systematic reconstruction of Fichte's first-order claims in normative ethics and the philosophy of right.