tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155208732239734431.post1083113787792468242..comments2023-09-16T08:35:04.229-07:00Comments on Self and World: What the Fi@#te? (Part 1)Gabriel Gottliebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985766497553341713noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155208732239734431.post-8007431626921103202008-05-15T18:27:00.000-07:002008-05-15T18:27:00.000-07:00May I suggest a subject for the second installment...May I suggest a subject for the second installment of the "What the Fi@#te?" series? In the Foundations of Natural Right - a work ostensibly devoted to political philosophy - Fichte suggests that he can derive all of the particular objects in the world as necessary conditions of the possibility of self-consciousness: "If there is any human being at all, then there is necessarily a world as well, and certainly a world such as ours, one that contains both non-rational objects and rational beings within it. (This is not the proper place to proceed further and establish the necessity of all the particular objects in nature and their necessary classification, even though this can be established, just like the necessity of a world in general)" (Foundations of Natural Right, ed. Frederick Neuhouser, Cambridge: CUP, 2000 p. 38). He continues in a footnote to the passage in parentheses: "Whoever cannot understand this should simply have patience and should conclude from his lack of understanding only what it actually implies, namely, that he cannot understand it" (op. cit. p. 38n.d).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155208732239734431.post-30093032690498300542008-03-29T21:03:00.000-07:002008-03-29T21:03:00.000-07:00I approve of the quote. I confess it reminds me o...I approve of the quote. I confess it reminds me of the sentiments of a man who hated Fichte only slightly less than he hated Hegel: Schopenhauer.JPourtlesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13237376375727319670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155208732239734431.post-55110721005441752612008-03-29T12:05:00.000-07:002008-03-29T12:05:00.000-07:00I approve of this new series.Especially its title....I approve of this new series.<BR/><BR/>Especially its title.Daniel Lindquisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05443116324301716578noreply@blogger.com