Ep. 272: Fichte's Idealist Theology (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
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🗓️ 21 June 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Our second full discussion on The Vocation of Man (1799).
What are the ethical implications of believing that the world is all in our minds? You could be a solipsistic nihilist, but Fichte thinks the path of faith is unavoidable for a reasonable person: faith that the world is real and matters, that other people have moral status, and yes, he's going to argue for God and heaven, though unconventionally.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Parsley Exam in Life, a podcast by some guys who are at one point |
| 0:11.3 | set on doing philosophy for living but then thought better of it. |
| 0:13.9 | Our question for Episode 272 is something like, what if anything does our relationship |
| 0:18.3 | to the world entail that we must do? |
| 0:20.8 | And we read Book 3 of Johann Gottlieb Fichter's The Vocation of Man from 1799, who will also |
| 0:26.8 | be filling in a few points on Book 2 left over from our last discussion. |
| 0:30.4 | For more information, please visit ParsleyExaminedLife.com. |
| 0:33.8 | This is Mark Lusimair, Vocation Still Undeclared in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 0:38.2 | This is Seth Pasch and recognizing that faculty in myself, which is not understanding in |
| 0:44.1 | Austin, Texas. |
| 0:45.1 | This is Wes Alon with a vocation that is beyond space and time in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 0:53.0 | This is Dylan Casey acting not because I know, but knowing because I act in Middleton, |
| 0:57.7 | Wisconsin. |
| 0:58.7 | Mmm, that's a good one. |
| 1:00.5 | So our second session on this book, we should sum up where we are at this point. |
| 1:07.0 | We didn't quite finish. |
| 1:08.0 | There's about 15 pages left in Book 2. |
| 1:10.8 | So a lot of the elaboration of the details of what his idealism amounts to are in there. |
| 1:17.1 | I guess I was surprised that rather than Book 3 being about working out the philosophical |
| 1:23.4 | problems with idealism, for instance, it's not about that at all. |
| 1:27.3 | It's more given that we have no way of referencing something objective, in other words, beyond |
| 1:34.0 | any possible human thought or conception or not even just human thought, but my personal |
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