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The Science of Knowledge: With the First and Second Introductions (Texts in German Philosophy)
by J. G. Fichte
from Cambridge University Press

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• Doctrine of Science
  You know when the title is mistranslated that you are in for trouble. "Wissenschaftslehre" is correctly translated as "Doctrine of Science," not "Science of Knowledge." Fichte wants to convince us that there is no thing-in-itself. There is only a phenomenal, appearing, world. Your Ego "posits" itself and creates an image of an external world (an Id). Schopenhauer likened this philosophy to a spider's philosophy. The Ego, like a spider, spins the known world out from itself in the way that a spider spins its... more info

• An Objective Tour of Consciousness
  Comprehensive, deep, perhaps even intellectually orgasimic. The Science of Knowledge contains the most stunning criticisms, elaborations, and evolutions of the Kantian line. Anyone who is disenchanted with modern philsophy and thinks that critical metaphysics is dead should read this book first. Practically every significant problem that is posed in modern philsophy of mind is addressed and solved! Fichte's Transcendental Idealism should become a western Zen Mantra!

  Oh yeah, and follow the white rabbit.

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