Science of Knowledge (Wissenschaftslehre)
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Science of Knowledge (Wissenschaftslehre) is Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s foundational philosophical work that systematically develops a transcendental idealist account of the self and its role in constituting knowledge and reality.
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| instanceOf |
philosophical work
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transcendental idealist work → treatise → work of German idealism → |
| aim |
to derive the structure of experience from the activity of the I
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to provide a systematic foundation for all knowledge → |
| author |
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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| centralConcept |
foundationalism in philosophy
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freedom → non-I (das Nicht-Ich) → practical reason → self-positing I → the I (das Ich) → transcendental subjectivity → |
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Germany
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| genre |
epistemology
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metaphysics → systematic philosophy → |
| hasPart |
practical part
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theoretical part → |
| historicalContext |
late 18th-century German philosophy
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| influenced |
19th-century continental philosophy
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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling → Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel → existentialism → later German idealism → phenomenology → |
| influencedBy |
Critique of Pure Reason
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Immanuel Kant → |
| keyTheme |
the active nature of the subject
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the grounding of objectivity in subjectivity → the primacy of practical reason → the systematic derivation of categories from the I → the unity of theoretical and practical philosophy → |
| language |
German
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| mainSubject |
the conditions of possibility of experience
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the constitution of knowledge → the constitution of reality → the self → |
| movement |
post-Kantian philosophy
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| originalTitle |
Wissenschaftslehre
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| philosophicalClaim |
reality is constituted in relation to the activity of the I
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the I posits a not-I as limit and opposition → the I posits itself absolutely → the self is the ground of the possibility of knowledge → theoretical and practical reason are unified in the activity of the I → |
| philosophicalTradition |
German idealism
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transcendental idealism → |
| relatedConcept |
transcendental philosophy
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| relatedWork |
Foundations of the Entire Science of Knowledge
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Referenced by (10)
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German idealism
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte ("Wissenschaftslehre") → Johann Gottlieb Fichte ("Foundations of the Entire Wissenschaftslehre") → |
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Fichtean idealism
("Wissenschaftslehre")
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Fichtean idealism ("Foundations of the Entire Wissenschaftslehre") → |
associatedWork |
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Foundations of Natural Right
("Foundations of the Entire Science of Knowledge")
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The System of Ethics ("Foundations of the Entire Science of Knowledge") → |
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doctrine of the I
("Foundations of the Entire Wissenschaftslehre")
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Science of Knowledge
("Wissenschaftslehre")
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originalTitle |
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Science of Knowledge
("Foundations of the Entire Science of Knowledge")
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relatedWork |