Fichtean idealism
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Fichtean idealism is a form of German idealist philosophy developed by Johann Gottlieb Fichte that emphasizes the self-positing activity of the ego as the foundation of all reality and knowledge.
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| instanceOf |
German idealism
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philosophical doctrine → transcendental idealism → |
| aim |
to ground philosophy as a rigorous science
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| associatedWork |
Foundations of Natural Right
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Foundations of the Entire Wissenschaftslehre → System of Ethics → Wissenschaftslehre → |
| contrastsWith |
empirical realism
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materialism → naive realism → |
| coreClaim |
subject and object are grounded in the activity of the I
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the I posits itself → the I posits the not-I → the activity of the ego is the foundation of all knowledge → the activity of the ego is the foundation of all reality → |
| countryOfOrigin |
Germany
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| developedBy |
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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| discipline |
philosophy
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| epistemologicalStance |
constructivism about objects of experience
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| historicalContext |
German Enlightenment
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Jena Romanticism → |
| influenced |
German idealism
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Hegelian idealism → Schellingian idealism → existentialism → neo-Kantianism → phenomenology → |
| influencedBy |
Immanuel Kant
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Kantian transcendental idealism → |
| language |
German
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| mainConcept |
I
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absolute ego → non-I → self-positing ego → |
| metaphysicalStance |
idealism
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| method |
transcendental deduction from the I
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| period |
early 19th century
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late 18th century → |
| philosophicalSchool |
post-Kantian philosophy
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| subDiscipline |
epistemology
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ethics → metaphysics → philosophy of mind → |
| viewOnFreedom |
freedom is fundamental to the I
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| viewOnMoralLaw |
moral law is grounded in the self-positing I
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| viewOnObject |
objects are limits posited to the I's activity
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| viewOnReality |
reality is constituted by the activity of the I
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| viewOnSelf |
the self is an active process rather than a substance
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German idealism
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