Circles and Grounds
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23743201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Breazeale (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Pages | 272-300 |
| Publication date | 2013-11-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Thinking Through the Wissenschaftslehre (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199233632.003.0010 |
| OpenAlex | W2478228241 |
| ISBN | 9780199233632 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
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 truth is mediated by the inter-determination of all the propositions that make up the system, as in Hegel’s mature system. Though there is some evidence for this view, there is an overwhelming amount of evidence against it. Despite his acknowledgment of various types of unavoidable extra-systematic and intra-systematic “circularity,” including the circular or mutually inter-determining relationship to one another of the various powers and actions of the finite I and the inescapable “circle of consciousness” within which all finite intellects are confined, Fichte remained committed to a deeply practical or ethical variant of systematic foundationalism.
History · Humanities and Social Sciences · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy and Historical Thought
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |