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Introductions to the Wissenschaftslehre and Other Writings (1797-1800)
by J. G. Fichte
from Hackett Publishing Company

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Clearly marks a break between philosophy and theology.
  All it took to get Fichte to collapse into a claim that he was merely a philosopher by 1800, when he wrote a few of his defenses in this book, was the charge that he was being atheistic in his faith in a moral world order rather than the kind of proofs of God that Kant had found unconvincing. His ideas about a moral world order make more sense to me as a philosophy than the concepts that make up more of this book. In our time, being considered an atheist has its defenders among those who consider themselves... more info

• A lucid translation of Ficthe's difficult work.
  Breazeale,perhaps the foremost Fichte scholar in the English speaking world, gives a lucid translation of Fichte's classic, but sadly, underexamined work. Most notably, Breazeale's informative introduction provides the reader with a synopsis of Fichtean thought and the historical background in which it developed. Will be of interest to anyone interested in German philosophy after Kant. Highly recommended.

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