The Concept of the “I” in Fichte’s Explanation of Substantiality
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https://doi.org/10.22240/sent31.02.075Keywords:
Fichte, subject, substance, epistemic activity of the subject, identifiability (Bestimmbarkeit), Ch. Wolff, I. Kant, S. MaimonAbstract
The paper deals with Fichte’s conception of substantiality formulated in «Foundations of the Science of Knowledge» (1794). The author claims that according to Fichte the self-ascription of an epistemic activity to the subject is possible only if we can think subject as the substance, to which we could ascribe all possible epistemic activities. Furthemore, the author shows the development of the concept of definability (Bestimmbarkeit), which is of the utmost importance for the understanding of Fichte’s concept of substantiality, by Wolff, Kant, and Maimon.
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