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Thesis ID: CBB001567313

A Critical Explication of the First Two Sections of Fichte's “Grundlage der gesamten Wissenschaftslehre” (2011)

Pennsylvania State University
Schmidt, Dennis J
Publication date: 2011
Language: English

ISBN: 9781124828978

Publication Date: 2011
Edition Details: Advisor: Schmidt, Dennis J.
Physical Details: 270 pp.

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Philosophy Theories of knowledge Methodology of science; scientific method 18th century 19th century Germany Fichte, Johann Gottlieb

In this dissertation, I offer a critical explication of the theoretical section of Johann Gottlieb Fichte's Foundations of the Entire Science of Knowledge (Grundlage der gesamten Wissenschaftslehre, abbreviated as Grundlage); in doing so, I explore the highly idiosyncratic mode of philosophical reasoning used in that text. In doing this, it is of decisive importance to understand how a set of philosophical figures function to drive the development of the conceptuality required for Fichte's project. As such, the explication of this work partly involves tracing the way in which figurative language and geometrical schema develop and drive the determination of that conceptuality. In closely following the Grundlage's series of concepts and schemata, we are better able to understand the decisive importance such figures play in Fichte's thought, and, more generally, develop a deeper appreciation of the role of the imagination in philosophical thinking.

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Description Cited in Dissertation Abstracts International-A 72/11, May 2012. Proquest Document ID: 887987860.

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