Fichte's Science of Knowledge. Charles Carroll Everett

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       Charles Carroll Everett

      Fichte's Science of Knowledge

      Published by Good Press, 2020

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       PREFACE.

       FICHTE’S SCIENCE OF KNOWLEDGE.

       CHAPTER I.

       CHAPTER II.

       I. The Deduction of the Categories.

       II. The Thing-in-itself.

       III. Problems Suggested by the Practical Reason.

       IV. Unity in General.

       CHAPTER III.

       I. The A PRIORI Method in Philosophy

       II. The Ultimate Reality.

       CHAPTER IV.

       CHAPTER V.

       CHAPTER VI.

       CHAPTER VII.

       CHAPTER VIII.

       CHAPTER IX.

       I. PERCEPTION.

       II. THOUGHT.

       III. THE POWER OF JUDGMENT, AND ITS RELATION TO THE UNDERSTANDING.

       IV. THE REASON.

       V. THE HIGHEST ACT OF ABSTRACTION, AND THE FINAL RELATION OF THE NOT-ME TO THE I.

       CHAPTER X.

       I. THE LONGING FOR CHANGE.

       II. THE OBJECTIVE WORLD.

       III. THE WORLD OP OBJECTS.

       IV. SPACE.

       V. TIME.

       VI. THE NATURE OF THE CHANGE DESIRED.

       VII. THE LONGING FOR HARMONY AND COMPLETENESS.

       VIII. THE ABSOLUTE HARMONY; THE MORAL LAW AND ITS CONTENT.

       CHAPTER XI.

       CHAPTER XII.

       CHAPTER XIII.

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      IN the prospectus of the series to which this volume belongs, the following statement was made:

      “Each volume will be devoted to the critical exposition of some one masterpiece belonging to the history of German philosophy. The aim in each case will be to furnish a clear and attractive statement of the special substance and purport of the original author’s argument, to interpret and elucidate the same by reference to the historic and acknowledged results of philosophic inquiry, to give an independent estimate of merits and deficiencies, and especially to show, as occasion may require, in what way German thought contains the natural complement, or the much needed corrective, of British speculation.”

In accordance with this plan, the present volume will be chiefly devoted to a study of Fichte’s Principles of the Complete Science of Knowledge^[1]. Reference will be made to his other writings, sufficient, it is hoped to show the relation which the results reached in this work bear to his system as a whole.

      It would be too much to say that no system of philosophy can be understood till it is believed. It is at least true, however, that no system can be understood until belief in it is seen to be possible. I shall, therefore, identify myself as closely as possible with the work before us, making the freest use of the material furnished by Fichte, and seeking to make its reasoning seem conclusive where that is possible; and plausible where plausibility is all that can be hoped. Criticism will not be introduced in the course of the discussion, except in cases where a process of thought may be better understood by its aid. A brief criticism will, however, be added at the close of the work, which may perhaps sufficiently indicate the limitations of Fichte’s philosophy.

      C. C. EVERETT.Harvard University,May, 1884.

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