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Hello! This is a blog devoted to the study of topics related to history from all around the world. There will also be posts specifically on the history of German Idealism.
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- Fichte’s Insight: Aletheological PowerA lot of ink was spilled over how much Fichte’s original discovery lay in an original investigation into the structure of reflexion as inquiry into the self-originating conditions of the transcendental structures of experience by means of the absolute I, which necessitated an even more radical unity of concept and intuition, the empirical and theContinue reading “Fichte’s Insight: Aletheological Power”
- Fichte’s ”Revolutionary” Absolute Miracle
Here I’ll dwell only on some respective differences between Fichte’s and Hegel’s methods and some interesting comparisons, per example as that of between Hegel’s “absolute negativity” and Fichte’s “absolute miracle” and how this relates to the Fichtean understanding of a revolution. This article is meant to be a continuation of the critique of Žižek’s chapterContinue reading “Fichte’s ”Revolutionary” Absolute Miracle” - Schelling’s Critique of Hegel
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775-1854) is one of the greatest philosophers of German Idealism. His Naturphilosophie was one of the most original contributions in the history of philosophy and was a conclusive break from the Kantian/Fichtean tradition of transcendental idealism. He wrote two philosophical masterpieces – On the Essence of Human Freedom (1809) andContinue reading “Schelling’s Critique of Hegel” - Hegel’s Early Critique of Kant
Hegel’s Faith and Knowledge represents one of the major contributions to the Critical Journal in which Hegel was co-editor with Schelling. Published in July 1802 as the only essay of the first issue of the second volume, it represents a watershed in Hegel’s thought. The original title Hegel gave to this work was “The Kant-Jacobi-FichteanContinue reading “Hegel’s Early Critique of Kant”
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