Fichte and the Body in Action

Fichte and the Body in Action

This paper deals with some fundamental aspects of Fichte’s transcendental account of the body in action, as laid down in the introductory remarks to his 1798 Sittenlehre. Fichte claims that the representation of one’s body is part and parcel of the representation of “first-person” efficacious action...

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Glavni avtor: Carvalho, M. Jorge de
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Izdano: Revista de Estud(i)os sobre Fichte 2026
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efficacious action
Sittenlehre 1798
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:ref_683 https://doi.org/10.4000/ref.683 urn:doi:10.4000/ref.683 en https://journals.openedition.org/ref/683 2026-06-09T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/jqdz All rights reserved Fichte and the Body in Action 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 Carvalho, M. Jorge de body efficacious action Sittenlehre 1798 This paper deals with some fundamental aspects of Fichte’s transcendental account of the body in action, as laid down in the introductory remarks to his 1798 Sittenlehre. Fichte claims that the representation of one’s body is part and parcel of the representation of “first-person” efficacious action or of one’s Wirksamkeit überhaupt. In his view, the latter cannot take place without the former, so that the representation of one’s body is necessarily contained and posited in the representation of one’s Wirksamkeit. Conversely, action – i. e. meine Wirksamkeit – is more than just a particular feature of one’s body among many others: the representation of one’s efficacious action is rather the framework within which the representation of one’s body is formed – it is what constitutes one’s body (my body) as such. This paper tries to zoom in on the very complex set of representations that, according to Fichte, are entailed in the indissoluble unity of this fundamental representation: “my efficacious action/my body”.
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topic body
efficacious action
Sittenlehre 1798
spellingShingle body
efficacious action
Sittenlehre 1798
Carvalho, M. Jorge de
Fichte and the Body in Action
description This paper deals with some fundamental aspects of Fichte’s transcendental account of the body in action, as laid down in the introductory remarks to his 1798 Sittenlehre. Fichte claims that the representation of one’s body is part and parcel of the representation of “first-person” efficacious action or of one’s Wirksamkeit überhaupt. In his view, the latter cannot take place without the former, so that the representation of one’s body is necessarily contained and posited in the representation of one’s Wirksamkeit. Conversely, action – i. e. meine Wirksamkeit – is more than just a particular feature of one’s body among many others: the representation of one’s efficacious action is rather the framework within which the representation of one’s body is formed – it is what constitutes one’s body (my body) as such. This paper tries to zoom in on the very complex set of representations that, according to Fichte, are entailed in the indissoluble unity of this fundamental representation: “my efficacious action/my body”.
author Carvalho, M. Jorge de
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title Fichte and the Body in Action
title_short Fichte and the Body in Action
title_full Fichte and the Body in Action
title_fullStr Fichte and the Body in Action
title_full_unstemmed Fichte and the Body in Action
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