What it takes to make a ‘thing’ (Fichte, Grundriss des Eigenthümlichen der Wissenchaftslehre)
This paper focuses on Fichte’s transcendental account of what it takes to make a thing, as laid out in his Grundriss des Eigentümlichen der Wissenschaftslehre. It tries to work out which ‘ingredients’ are necessary to make a ‘thing’ (viz. an ‘object’) and what their connection is with each other. Th...
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Revista de Estud(i)os sobre Fichte
2026
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| Summary: | This paper focuses on Fichte’s transcendental account of what it takes to make a thing, as laid out in his Grundriss des Eigentümlichen der Wissenschaftslehre. It tries to work out which ‘ingredients’ are necessary to make a ‘thing’ (viz. an ‘object’) and what their connection is with each other. The point is that a) Fichte’s account of the said ‘ingredients’ in his Grundriss (notably Anstoss, Empfindung, Anschauung, Vermögen zu setzen oder nicht zu setzen, reines Nicht-Ich, Bild, Mittelanschauung, and Ding proper) differs from all others, b) his understanding of each and every one of these ‘ingredients’ is surprisingly ground-breaking (and proposes nothing less than a completely new approach to the ‘ingredients’ in question, c) pretty much the same holds true for Fichte’s view on their connection with each other – so that d) the Grundriss gives a very singular answer to the question ‘what is a thing?’. |
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