Fichte’s final year

Journal title RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA
Author/s Erich Fuchs
Publishing Year 2014 Issue 2014/4
Language Italian Pages 16 P. 585-600 File size 89 KB
DOI 10.3280/SF2014-004002
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Fichte, who always philosophized with a view to the practical and political spheres, reacted to the events of 1813 with an offer to the government to intervene in the course of events as a "speaker for the state". After this offer was rejected, he took up his pen to reflect on a political structure that would allow Germany - to be united sometime in the future - to become a kingdom of reason. The internal logic of this thought led him in his philosophical diaries back to the other goal of his life: to discover a final version of the ultimately binding ground of the system of reason, the Wissenschaftslehre. He was torn away from this endeavour by death.

Keywords: Johann Gottlieb Fichte, political reflections, education, Napoleon, Wissenschaftslehre, foundation, Absolute, God, Christianity, freedom

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Erich Fuchs, Fichte’s final year in "RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA" 4/2014, pp 585-600, DOI: 10.3280/SF2014-004002