The Role of the Concept of Drive in Fichte’s Theory of Knowledge

The Role of the Concept of Drive in Fichte’s Theory of Knowledge

According to Fichte, transcendental philosophy has the task of explaining the possibility of experience. To achieve this goal, Fichte carries out an investigation into the representations that necessarily structure our perceptions. For Fichte, at the basis of these representations there is a subject...

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Hlavní autor: Peña, Paulo E.
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Vydáno: Revista de Estud(i)os sobre Fichte 2026
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consciousness
experience
Drive
determination
cognitions
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:ref_2075 https://doi.org/10.4000/125xa urn:doi:10.4000/125xa en https://journals.openedition.org/ref/2075 2026-06-09T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/125xa All rights reserved The Role of the Concept of Drive in Fichte’s Theory of Knowledge Revista de Estud(i)os sobre Fichte Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2258-014X URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ref Peña, Paulo E. consciousness experience Drive determination cognitions According to Fichte, transcendental philosophy has the task of explaining the possibility of experience. To achieve this goal, Fichte carries out an investigation into the representations that necessarily structure our perceptions. For Fichte, at the basis of these representations there is a subjective, inner dynamic force that leads to the unconscious production of the objects of experience in accordance with a priori rules of thinking. He calls such a force a drive (Trieb). Despite the considerable amount of contemporary commentary devoted to the Wissenschaftslehre, little attention has been given to the epistemological role of Fichte’s theory of drives by the secondary literature in English. In this paper, I aim to fill this gap by shedding some light into the relevance of the notion of drive within Fichte’s theory of cognition. I argue that drive is key to explicate consciousness, representations, and the acquisition of knowledge.
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topic consciousness
experience
Drive
determination
cognitions
spellingShingle consciousness
experience
Drive
determination
cognitions
Peña, Paulo E.
The Role of the Concept of Drive in Fichte’s Theory of Knowledge
description According to Fichte, transcendental philosophy has the task of explaining the possibility of experience. To achieve this goal, Fichte carries out an investigation into the representations that necessarily structure our perceptions. For Fichte, at the basis of these representations there is a subjective, inner dynamic force that leads to the unconscious production of the objects of experience in accordance with a priori rules of thinking. He calls such a force a drive (Trieb). Despite the considerable amount of contemporary commentary devoted to the Wissenschaftslehre, little attention has been given to the epistemological role of Fichte’s theory of drives by the secondary literature in English. In this paper, I aim to fill this gap by shedding some light into the relevance of the notion of drive within Fichte’s theory of cognition. I argue that drive is key to explicate consciousness, representations, and the acquisition of knowledge.
author Peña, Paulo E.
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title The Role of the Concept of Drive in Fichte’s Theory of Knowledge
title_short The Role of the Concept of Drive in Fichte’s Theory of Knowledge
title_full The Role of the Concept of Drive in Fichte’s Theory of Knowledge
title_fullStr The Role of the Concept of Drive in Fichte’s Theory of Knowledge
title_full_unstemmed The Role of the Concept of Drive in Fichte’s Theory of Knowledge
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