Summary
Johann Gottlib Fichte: Review of the Enesidem
"Review of the Enesidem" represents a turning point in Fichte's thinking and creation. The philosopher himself was aware of the importance that the work on Schulze's book had for him. In this sense, he stated that the arguments of this "great skeptic" overthrew K. Reinhold's system and at least "questioned" Kant's teaching, but also that they shook his own previous assumptions and conception, thus forcing him to abandon his previous philosophical system. Fichte agrees with Schulze that philosophy, which aspires to be a science of knowledge as a science, must start from the question of how it can be guaranteed that it fully fulfills the entire field of human knowledge. At first he was confused by the arguments of the skeptics, but soon he was convinced that philosophy can become a science only if it develops from a principle that, according to him, certainly exists, but is not put as such: "Philosophy can and should derive its thoughts with its thoughts. from one principle, which everyone must recognize." the basis of all philosophy, because for the latter it is necessary to derive a feeling from one's own knowledge. and the power of desire. Therefore, like Reinhold, Fichte is convinced that the three powers of human spirituality should and can be subordinated to a higher principle, unlike Kant who keeps them coordinated. In this connection, already in 1795, Fichte uttered something that would give an essential characteristic of his teaching: "I subordinate them to the principle of subjectivity in general".
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