PREMIUM-Ep. 271: Johan Gottlieb Fichte's Transcendental Idealism (Part Two)

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🗓️ 14 June 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Continuing on The Vocation of Man (1799), Book II.

In this preview, we clarify whether Fichte is trying to keep the notion of a "real world" beyond our experience or not. It's part of the progression of the text that while at first he assumes that there must be something real behind this experienced world we as individuals create, he gives up that notion in the middle of Book II. So how does he get to his startling reversal?

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0:00.0	The partially examined life philosophy podcast Part 1 episodes are designed to be self-contained,
0:12.8	fully satisfying experiences in themselves.
0:15.6	But for hardcore philosophy fans, we record for another hour or so to release behind
0:19.9	our various paywalls to folks that pitch in to help us make this show.
0:24.1	What you're about to hear is a preview of one of these Part 2 episodes, we hope you
0:27.7	enjoy it.
0:28.7	Hey, this episode 271 Part 2, we've been discussing books one and two of Johann Fichter's The
0:35.5	Vocation of Man.
0:37.0	We were at some dispute on whether in this book he seems to be retaining some notion of
0:45.0	perception being tied to a mind-interparent reality or not.
0:49.0	And I think I found the source of this confusion.
0:51.5	This disagreement is that on page 62 of our old 1905 version, he does just like he did
0:58.2	in book one where about two thirds of the way into it.
1:01.0	He's like, let me just throw away everything I've done to now.
1:03.8	I'm going to start fresh.
1:05.0	But here he says now, seriously, I retract my whole previous position that by means of
1:10.1	the principle of causality I arrive at the knowledge of external things.
1:13.3	And I did indeed inwardly retract it as soon as it led us into serious error.
1:17.7	So I think you're both right.
1:19.1	I think Dylan and Seth, you're reading the stuff that's in the early part of here and
1:23.8	he's describing the phenomenology, which like, yeah.
1:27.0	You know, when I perceive red, I perceive it as the red that is of a red thing that is
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