Fichte’s Certainty in the Spirit by the Letter

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ID9687902
AuthorsAntón Barba-Kay, Antón Barba‐Kay (Catholic University of America, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume59
Issue4
Pages651-676
Publication date2020-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDialogue (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0012217319000040
OpenAlexW2931666596
LanguageEN
References cited21

Fichte’s Jena writings sought to combine the apparently conflicting requirements of settling philosophy on scientific grounds and of respecting its character as a self-determined vocation. In reconciling these tasks, he understood himself to be faced at once with the meta-philosophical one of motivating the questions he addressed, the pedagogical one of adequately communicating his position, and the polemical one of accounting for the incomprehension of his adversaries. I show how these layers constitute Fichte’s response to the larger problem of specifying the relation between the rote ‘letter’ of a philosophical doctrine and the intersubjective ‘spirit’ of its communicability

Certainty · Character (mathematics) · Doctrine · Economics · Epistemology · Philosophical methodology · Philosophical theory · Position (finance) · Reflexive pronoun · Relation (database) · Theology · Computer Science · Mathematics · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Philosophy and Historical Thought · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought

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