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Fichte's System of Ethics, published in 1798, is at once the most
accessible presentation of its author's comprehensive philosophical
project, The Science of Knowledge or Wissenschaftslehre, and the
most important work in moral philosophy written between Kant and
Hegel. Fichte's ethics integrates the discussion of our moral
duties into the systematic framework of a transcendental theory of
the human subject. Its major philosophical themes include the
practical nature of self-consciousness, the relation between reason
and volition, the essential role of the drives in human willing,
the possibility of changing the natural world, the reality of one's
own body, the reality of other human beings, and the practical
necessity of social relations between human beings. This volume
offers a new translation of the work together with an introduction
that sets it in its philosophical and historical contexts.
Fichte's System of Ethics, published in 1798, is at once the most
accessible presentation of its author's comprehensive philosophical
project, The Science of Knowledge or Wissenschaftslehre, and the
most important work in moral philosophy written between Kant and
Hegel. Fichte's ethics integrates the discussion of our moral
duties into the systematic framework of a transcendental theory of
the human subject. Its major philosophical themes include the
practical nature of self-consciousness, the relation between reason
and volition, the essential role of the drives in human willing,
the possibility of changing the natural world, the reality of one's
own body, the reality of other human beings, and the practical
necessity of social relations between human beings. This volume
offers a new translation of the work together with an introduction
that sets it in its philosophical and historical contexts.
These selections provide a brief but comprehensive introduction to
Fichte's philosophical system and his place in the history of
German Idealism. In addition to some of Fichte's most influential
texts, such as the First and Second Introductions to the
Wissenschaftslehre and The Basis of Our Belief in a Divine
Governance of the World, Breazeale has translated, for the first
time into English, several other writings from the same period,
including Attempt at a New Presentation of the Wissenschaftslehre,
Other short essays, including Fichte's replies to the charge of
atheism, extend the discussions of the Introductions and respond to
criticisms. Breazeale's substantial Introduction supplies the
context needed for a sound appreciation of Fichte's enterprise and
achievement.
Contents include a translator's introduction, selected
bibliography, note on the text, and Fichte's The Vocation of Man --
Book One: Doubt, Book Two: Knowledge, and Book Three: Faith.
"This work is a model of what a philosophical text should be."
Reinhard Lauth "Breazeale's translation is fluent, precise, and
perhaps most important of all . . . it is readable. . . . This is
an excellent translation by the ranking Fichte scholar working in
English at present, accompanied by a full, useful scholarly
apparatus, likely to be of interest to Fichte scholars and all
those concerned with the development of German idealism." Review of
Metaphysics "The publishing of this volume in English . . .
provides us with a wealth of new material, not just about Fichte's
development, but about the essentially Cartesian project that first
gave rise to phenomenology in our own century." International
Philosophical Quarterly"
"This work is a model of what a philosophical text should
be."—Reinhard Lauth "Breazeale's translation is fluent, precise,
and perhaps most important of all... it is readable.... This is an
excellent translation by the ranking Fichte scholar working in
English at present, accompanied by a full, useful scholarly
apparatus, likely to be of interest to Fichte scholars and all
those concerned with the development of German idealism."—Review
of Metaphysics "The publishing of this volume in English...
provides us with a wealth of new material, not just about Fichte's
development, but about the essentially Cartesian project that first
gave rise to phenomenology in our own century."—International
Philosophical Quarterly
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