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Reason and agency in Kant and Fichte

Michael Vater

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Abstract

This paper explores the question of the unity of Transcendental Idealism at the end of Eighteenth Century German philosophy, given that it circulated in different versions, Kant’s Critique [of humans’ rational powers] and Fichte’ System of Science [Wissenschaftslehre]. Both thinkers take the transcendental turn. They base conceptual investigations not on facts or empirical evidence, but on the possibility of a situation; they are idealists since they look inward to the spontaneity of the agent/knower for explanation, not the environment, stimulus, or sensory given. Reason can fathom only what it has constructed.

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(2018) Inv(i)erno 2018. Revista de estud(i)os sobre Fichte 16.

Full citation:

Vater Michael (2018) „Reason and agency in Kant and Fichte“. Revista de estud(i)os sobre Fichte 16, n/a.