Daniel Breazeale
Biographic Data
| ID | 1071998 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Breazeale |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Breazeale |
| SIGNATURE | BREAZEALE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 9 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Fichte’s Moral Philosophy
J. G. Fichte: Foundation of the Entire Wissenschaftslehre and Related Writings (1794–95)
J. G. Fichte: Foundation of the Entire Wissenschaftslehre and Related Writings, 1794-95
Fichte's Addresses to the German Nation Reconsidered
The Wissenschaftslehre of 1796–99 ( nova methodo )
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Fichte and Transcendental Philosophy
Circles and Grounds
Fichte’s Jena writings include a remarkable number of comments on various kinds of circular reasoning, many of which he appears to apply directly to his own philosophizing. This has led some interpreters to reject the common view of Fichte as an arch-foundationalist and to interpret the Jena Wissenschaftslehre as committed to a “circular” model of epistemology, according to which there are no immediately certain philosophical propositions and all…
The Problematic Primacy of the Practical
Though Fichte is often described as an “ethical idealist” who carried the Kantian principle of “the primacy of the practical” to a new extreme, this characterization overlooks the extent to which the Wissenschaftslehre demonstrates the fundamental “equiprimordiality” of the theoretical and practical powers and activities of the I. Knowing and willing are equally involved in the constitution of finite selfhood and both are implicit in every moment…
Idealism vs. Dogmatism
The task of philosophy is to explain the presence to consciousness of “representations accompanied by a feeling of necessity.” It can attempt to do this either by grounding experience upon a thing in itself as the cause of the determinations of the I, or by explaining experience as a product of the self-constitutive activity of the finite I. These are, respectively, the strategies of “dogmatism” and “idealism,” which are, for Fichte, the only two…
Intellectual Intuition
This chapter aims to clarify the meaning of the term “intellectual intuition” by distinguishing four distinct senses of “intellectual” (or “inner”) intuition in Fichte’s Jena writings and contrasting all of them with “sensible intuition.” These four senses are: (1) the “actual intellectual intuition” of moral obligation and of one’s free power to determine oneself in accord with duty; (2) “intellectual intuition” as designating the pure structure…
Fichte's Vocation of Man: New Interpretive and Critical Essays
Thinking Through the Wissenschaftslehre: Themes from Fichte's Early Philosophy
This is a critical study of the early philosophy of J. G. Fichte, that is, of the version of the Wissenschaftslehre or “doctrine of science” that he developed in Jena between 1794 and 1799. It is intended to assist readers in their efforts to understand Fichte’s philosophy within the context of its own era and to orient them in the ongoing scholarly debates concerning the character and significance of Fichte’s first system. The focus is upon expl…
Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations
Individually and collectively, the four untimely meditations are unquestionably among Friedrich Nietzsche's most widely neglected works. The Untimely Meditations contain important, early discussions of such essential Nietzschean subjects as the relationship between life, art and philosophy; the character and cultivation of the true self; education (and its vital erotic dimension), and the difference between genuine wisdom and mere knowledge (or s…
Introductions to Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) is one of the most important philosophers of the last two hundred years, whose writings, both published and unpublished, have had a formative influence on virtually all aspects of modern culture. This volume offers introductory essays on all of Nietzsche's completed works and also his unpublished notebooks. The essays address such topics as his criticism of morality and Christianity, his doctrines of the will to po…
Untimely Meditations
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Schopenhauer as Educator
A traveller who had seen many lands and peoples and several of the earth's continents was asked what quality in men he had discovered everywhere he had gone. He replied: 'They have a tendency to laziness.' To many it will seem that he ought rather to have said: 'They are all timid. They hide themselves behind customs and opinions.' In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable…
Fichte, German Idealism, and Early Romanticism
This volume of 23 previously unpublished essays explores the relationship between the philosophy of J.G. Fichte and that of other leading thinkers associated with German Idealism and the early Romantic movement. Several papers explore the broader question of Fichte’s relationship and contribution to “German idealism” and “German romanticism” in general, while others offer comparative studies of the relationship between Fichte’s writings and those…
Fichte, German idealism, and early romanticism
Fichte and the phenomenological tradition
This volume is a collection of previously unpublished papers dealing with the neglected “phenomenological” dimension of the philosophy of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, which it compares and contrasts to the phenomenology of his contemporary Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and to those of Edmund Husserl and his 20th century followers. Issues discussed include a comparision of the early phenomenological method in Fichte and Hegel with the classical phenome…
Between Kant and Hegel. Lectures on German Idealism (review)
Reviewed by: Between Kant and Hegel. Lectures on German Idealism Daniel Breazeale Dieter Henrich. Between Kant and Hegel. Lectures on German Idealism. David S. Pacini, editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. xliii + 341. Cloth, $62.00. As the author explains, the title of this work is intended to distinguish it from ordinary, Whiggish accounts of the development of German philosophy “from Kant to Hegel.” Instead, Heinrich treat…
J. G. Fichte, Review of Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch (Königsburg: Nicolovius, 1795)
Fichte's Conception of Philosophy as a "Pragmatic History of the Human Mind" and the Contributions of Kant, Platner, and Maimon
Daniel Breazeale, Fichte's Conception of Philosophy as a "Pragmatic History of the Human Mind" and the Contributions of Kant, Platner, and Maimon, Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 62, No. 4 (Oct., 2001), pp. 685-703
Putting Doubt in its Place: Karl Leonhard Reinhold on the Relationship between Philosophical Skepticism and Transcendental Idealism
Fichte: Foundations of Transcendental Philosophy (Wissenschaftslehre) nova methodo (1796–99)
Friedrich Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations
The four short works in Untimely Meditations were published by Nietzsche between 1873 and 1876.They deal with such broad topics as the relationship between popular and genuine culture, strategies for cultural reform, the task of philosophy, the nature of education, and the relationship between art, science and life. They also include Nietzsche's earliest statement of his own understanding of human selfhood as a process of endlessly 'becoming who …
Thinking Through the Wissenschaftslehre: Themes from Fichte's Early Philosophy
This is a critical study of the early philosophy of J. G. Fichte, that is, of the version of the Wissenschaftslehre or “doctrine of science” that he developed in Jena between 1794 and 1799. It is intended to assist readers in their efforts to understand Fichte’s philosophy within the context of its own era and to orient them in the ongoing scholarly debates concerning the character and significance of Fichte’s first system. The focus is upon expl…
Fichte: Historical Contexts/Contemporary Controversies
Fichte: Foundations of Transcendental Philosophy (Wissenschaftslehre) nova methodo (1796–99)
Fichte: Early Philosophical Writings
Fichte on Skepticism
Fichte on Skepticism DANIEL BREAZEALE REFERENCES TO SKEPTICISM are common in the writings of J. G. Fichte. Yet these same remarks display a puzzling ambiguity, alternating between outright hostility and grateful appreciation. For example, at the very outset of his career, in a letter written early in 1793, he could dismiss skepticism as "incontrovertibly refuted, ''~ and then, only a few months later, publicly acknowledge and praise it for its es…
Fichte, Marx, and the German Philosophical Tradition
Fichte's Conception of Philosophy as a "Pragmatic History of the Human Mind" and the Contributions of Kant, Platner, and Maimon
Daniel Breazeale, Fichte's Conception of Philosophy as a "Pragmatic History of the Human Mind" and the Contributions of Kant, Platner, and Maimon, Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 62, No. 4 (Oct., 2001), pp. 685-703
The Hegel-Nietzsche Problem
The Hegel-Nietzsche Problem
Fichte, Marx, and the German Philosophical Tradition
Fichte on Skepticism
Fichte on Skepticism DANIEL BREAZEALE REFERENCES TO SKEPTICISM are common in the writings of J. G. Fichte. Yet these same remarks display a puzzling ambiguity, alternating between outright hostility and grateful appreciation. For example, at the very outset of his career, in a letter written early in 1793, he could dismiss skepticism as "incontrovertibly refuted, ''~ and then, only a few months later, publicly acknowledge and praise it for its es…
Fichte: Early Philosophical Writings
Foundations of Transcendental Philosophy (Wissenschafts-Lehre) Nova Methodo (1796/99)
Fichte: Historical Contexts/Contemporary Controversies
Friedrich Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations
The four short works in Untimely Meditations were published by Nietzsche between 1873 and 1876.They deal with such broad topics as the relationship between popular and genuine culture, strategies for cultural reform, the task of philosophy, the nature of education, and the relationship between art, science and life. They also include Nietzsche's earliest statement of his own understanding of human selfhood as a process of endlessly 'becoming who …
Putting Doubt in its Place: Karl Leonhard Reinhold on the Relationship between Philosophical Skepticism and Transcendental Idealism
Fichte: Foundations of Transcendental Philosophy (Wissenschaftslehre) nova methodo (1796–99)
J. G. Fichte, Review of Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch (Königsburg: Nicolovius, 1795)
Fichte's Conception of Philosophy as a "Pragmatic History of the Human Mind" and the Contributions of Kant, Platner, and Maimon
Daniel Breazeale, Fichte's Conception of Philosophy as a "Pragmatic History of the Human Mind" and the Contributions of Kant, Platner, and Maimon, Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 62, No. 4 (Oct., 2001), pp. 685-703
Between Kant and Hegel. Lectures on German Idealism (review)
Reviewed by: Between Kant and Hegel. Lectures on German Idealism Daniel Breazeale Dieter Henrich. Between Kant and Hegel. Lectures on German Idealism. David S. Pacini, editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. xliii + 341. Cloth, $62.00. As the author explains, the title of this work is intended to distinguish it from ordinary, Whiggish accounts of the development of German philosophy “from Kant to Hegel.” Instead, Heinrich treat…
Fichte, German Idealism, and Early Romanticism
This volume of 23 previously unpublished essays explores the relationship between the philosophy of J.G. Fichte and that of other leading thinkers associated with German Idealism and the early Romantic movement. Several papers explore the broader question of Fichte’s relationship and contribution to “German idealism” and “German romanticism” in general, while others offer comparative studies of the relationship between Fichte’s writings and those…
Fichte, German idealism, and early romanticism
Fichte and the phenomenological tradition
This volume is a collection of previously unpublished papers dealing with the neglected “phenomenological” dimension of the philosophy of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, which it compares and contrasts to the phenomenology of his contemporary Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and to those of Edmund Husserl and his 20th century followers. Issues discussed include a comparision of the early phenomenological method in Fichte and Hegel with the classical phenome…
Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations
Individually and collectively, the four untimely meditations are unquestionably among Friedrich Nietzsche's most widely neglected works. The Untimely Meditations contain important, early discussions of such essential Nietzschean subjects as the relationship between life, art and philosophy; the character and cultivation of the true self; education (and its vital erotic dimension), and the difference between genuine wisdom and mere knowledge (or s…
Introductions to Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) is one of the most important philosophers of the last two hundred years, whose writings, both published and unpublished, have had a formative influence on virtually all aspects of modern culture. This volume offers introductory essays on all of Nietzsche's completed works and also his unpublished notebooks. The essays address such topics as his criticism of morality and Christianity, his doctrines of the will to po…
Untimely Meditations
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Schopenhauer as Educator
A traveller who had seen many lands and peoples and several of the earth's continents was asked what quality in men he had discovered everywhere he had gone. He replied: 'They have a tendency to laziness.' To many it will seem that he ought rather to have said: 'They are all timid. They hide themselves behind customs and opinions.' In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable…
Circles and Grounds
Fichte’s Jena writings include a remarkable number of comments on various kinds of circular reasoning, many of which he appears to apply directly to his own philosophizing. This has led some interpreters to reject the common view of Fichte as an arch-foundationalist and to interpret the Jena Wissenschaftslehre as committed to a “circular” model of epistemology, according to which there are no immediately certain philosophical propositions and all…
The Problematic Primacy of the Practical
Though Fichte is often described as an “ethical idealist” who carried the Kantian principle of “the primacy of the practical” to a new extreme, this characterization overlooks the extent to which the Wissenschaftslehre demonstrates the fundamental “equiprimordiality” of the theoretical and practical powers and activities of the I. Knowing and willing are equally involved in the constitution of finite selfhood and both are implicit in every moment…
Idealism vs. Dogmatism
The task of philosophy is to explain the presence to consciousness of “representations accompanied by a feeling of necessity.” It can attempt to do this either by grounding experience upon a thing in itself as the cause of the determinations of the I, or by explaining experience as a product of the self-constitutive activity of the finite I. These are, respectively, the strategies of “dogmatism” and “idealism,” which are, for Fichte, the only two…
Intellectual Intuition
This chapter aims to clarify the meaning of the term “intellectual intuition” by distinguishing four distinct senses of “intellectual” (or “inner”) intuition in Fichte’s Jena writings and contrasting all of them with “sensible intuition.” These four senses are: (1) the “actual intellectual intuition” of moral obligation and of one’s free power to determine oneself in accord with duty; (2) “intellectual intuition” as designating the pure structure…
Fichte's Vocation of Man: New Interpretive and Critical Essays
Thinking Through the Wissenschaftslehre: Themes from Fichte's Early Philosophy
This is a critical study of the early philosophy of J. G. Fichte, that is, of the version of the Wissenschaftslehre or “doctrine of science” that he developed in Jena between 1794 and 1799. It is intended to assist readers in their efforts to understand Fichte’s philosophy within the context of its own era and to orient them in the ongoing scholarly debates concerning the character and significance of Fichte’s first system. The focus is upon expl…
Epistemology (23 works) · Philosophy (21 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (15 works) · Kantian Philosophy and Modern Interpretations (11 works) · Philosophy and Historical Thought (7 works) · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought (7 works) · Transcendental number (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Humanities and Social Sciences (6 works) · Literature (6 works)