Fichte

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani presents Fichte as the first of the post-Kantians, the one who rushes into the void left by Kant and goes furthest in the Kantian advances, even at the cost of crossing limits Kant would not have crossed1. He places him with Kant in subjective idealism, where only the subject truly exists, and calls him the idol of the Romantic poets2. Above all, he retains the formula "ich bin ich", which in his view grounds the mathematical principle of identity A = A3, and the opposition between the I and the not-I, which exacerbates Kant's moral ought-to-be4. He takes up Hegel's criticism: Fichte treats the unlimited I as purely positive, without seeing the dualism of finite and infinite within the I5. He sees in the Science of Knowledge a philosophy of revolution starting from subjectivity alone6. He also cites the example of the free gesturing of the human newborn, as opposed to the stereotyped gesturing of the young animal, and recalls that Hegel asked to be buried near him.

1. 1"Je est un autre" ou l'identité contradictoire12 Dec 2023 · 37:19
2. 2"Je est un autre" ou l'identité contradictoire12 Dec 2023 · 40:41
3. 3IL NE SUFFIT PAS DE NAÎTRE HOMME, POUR ÊTRE HOMME • Q&A Philosophique • Dominique Pagani19 Jul 2021 · 8:21
4. 4Kant11 Dec 2015 · 1:33:08
5. 5Ni gauche ni droite ? Islamo gauchisme ?17 Oct 2023 · 28:50
6. 6Hommage à Domenico Losurdo2 Jul 2018 · 2:05:20

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