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The Vocation of Man
by Johann Gottlieb Fichte
from Hackett Pub Co Inc

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• Rich and exciting (even if ultimately unsatisfying) response to (or assessment of) Kantian Transcendental Idealism
  Fichte's excellent little treatise is both an outline of the argument for transcendental idealism and a passionate response that finds the Kantian position to be inadequate to speak to our deepest sentiments. It is intended as a popular treatise, but is not lacking in profundity and not an easy read -- it is popular in the way that Descartes' Meditations is popular: there is a line of thinking that is easy enough to trace throughout the book but the details can be quite daunting.
  The beginning of the... more info

• Fichte's Vocation of Man
  This book was written by Fichte to discredit the charges of atheism which were brought against him which forced him to leave the University of Jena. The book is written for non-professional philosophers, he intended it for the greater public; because of this, it is among the easier reads in philosophy.
  Fichte challenges reality itself in this book. He leads you down his path of thought from doubt to belief in a supreme moral being. He essentially illustrates the historical stages of metaphysical... more info

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