The Philosophical Rupture between Fichte and Schelling: Selected Texts and Correspondence (1800-1802) (SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy) by J. G. Fichte

by Johann Gottlieb Fichte

The disputes of philosophers provide a place to view their positions and arguments in a tightly focused way, and also in a manner that is infused with human temperaments and passions. Fichte and Schelling had been perceived as partners in the cause of Criticism or transcendental idealism since 1794, but upon Fichte s departure from Jena in 1799, each began to perceive a drift in their fundamental interests and allegiances. Schelling s philosophy of nature seemed to move him toward a realistic philosophy, while Fichte s interests in the origin of personal consciousness, intersubjectivity, and the ultimate determination of the agent s moral will moved him to explore what he called faith in one popular text, or a theory of an intelligible world. This volume brings together the letters the two philosophers exchanged between 1800 and 1802 and the texts that each penned with the other in mind."

Genres: Philosophy

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First published April 1, 2012

About the author

Johann Gottlieb Fichte was a German philosopher. He was one of the founding figures of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, a movement that developed from the theoretical and ethical writings of Immanuel Kant. Fichte is often perceived as a figure whose philosophy forms a bridge between the ideas of Kant and the German Idealist Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Recently, philosophers and scholars have begun to appreciate Fichte as an important philosopher in his own right due to his original insights into the nature of self-consciousness or self-awareness. Like Descartes and Kant before him, the problem of subjectivity and consciousness motivated much of his philosophical rumination. Fichte also wrote political philosophy, and is thought of by some as the father of German nationalism.
His son, Immanuel Hermann Fichte, was also a renowned philosopher.

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