Fichte: The System of Ethics
The System of Ethics
1st Edition
Published on 5. February 2006
978-0-511-13321-3 (ISBN)
Description
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 translation of the work together with an introduction that sets it in its philosophical and historical contexts.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Cambridge University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
3,04 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-511-13321-3 (9780511133213)
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte | Daniel Breazeale | Guenter Zoeller
Fichte: The System of Ethics
The System of Ethics
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11/2005
Cambridge University Press
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Persons
Daniel Breazeale is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky. Guenter Zoeller is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Munich.
Content
Part I. Deduction of the Principle of Morality; Part II. Deduction of the Reality and Applicability of the Principle of Morality; Part III. Systematic Application of the Principle of Morality, or Ethics in the Narrower Sense.
