Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 12:29:17 -0500
From: allen scult <allen.scult-AT-drake.edu>
Subject: RE: Fichte


>Accused of atheism, Fichte had to flee from Jena in 1799.
>The German king did not order to burn him, but received
>him kindly in Berlin. A new 'Wissenschaftslehre' was
>presented in private lectures. Saved lists show they were
>visited by the first string - wich is still sthing else
>than first string today. I only mention the name of the
>Prince of Metternich.
>
>In an announcement Fichte invites the interested to hear
>the oral execution of his Wissenschaftslehre .. "that is
>of the complete solution of the riddle of the world and
>of conscience with mathematical evidence. (Hegel said
>his system contains the thoughts of God before the creation
>of the world.)
>
>In one of the first hours he calls the 'I' the true result
>of both Kant's and his own philosophical occupation, 'I'
>conceived as the (absolute) point of unity of Being and Thinking.
>The 'I', the subject  (enlarged compared to Descartes, Leibniz, Kant)
>as the principle of the understanding of the world, is precisely
>the negative point of departure of BT.

Rene,

Thinking of Fichte's "I" as an enlargement of the Cartesion ego by means of  a
return to the Greek unity of being and thinking, especially in Parmenides
(as Michel suggests) is I think, very helpful.  I'm wondering, though, if
Fichte's "I" might be more closely aligned to the Situation- Ich , 
Heidegger's earlier
version of the hermeneutical situation.  This is then followed later 
a few years later  by
the  move to Dasein as the locus of understanding, with the 
implication you suggest.

Regards,

Allen




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