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Fichte's ethical theory (as presented in his 1798 System der Sittenlehre) has often been characterized as an unsound and extreme expression of moral rigorism, even "moral fanaticism". It has long been simultaneously criticized both as too formal and abstract and as too subjective and arbitrary. After considering these criticisms as they were first formulated by, among others, Schelling and Hegel, a more recent version of a similar criticism is also considered: namely, the charge that Fichte is unable to provide a successful account of moral deliberation and substantive self-determination that preserves both the autonomy of the moral agent and the universality and objectivity of the moral law. In order to respond to these criticisms one must explain how Fichte's ethics is grounded in the larger account of agency contained within the entire Jena Wissenschaftslehre, and, more specifically how that "determinate pure willing", which was posited in the Wissenschaftslehre nova methodo as the "highest synthesis" necessary for the very possibility of empirical self-consciousness, becomes the moral law when it is related, as it must be, to finite, natural consciousness. There follows an inte
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- Author
- Daniel Breazeale
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)