Foundations of the Science of Knowledge

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| name = Foundations of the Science of Knowledge

| title_orig = Grundlage der gesammten{{noitalic|{{sup|a}}}} Wissenschaftslehre

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| image = Foundations of the Science of Knowledge.jpg

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| author = Johann Gottlieb Fichte

| country = Germany

| language = German

| subject = Epistemology

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| release_date = 1794/1795

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| media_type = Print

| pages = 324 (1982 Cambridge University Press edition)

| isbn = 978-0521270502

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| notes = {{sup|a}} gesamten in modern German.

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Foundations of the Science of Knowledge ({{langx|de|Grundlage der gesammten Wissenschaftslehre}}) is a 1794/1795 book by the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte. Based on lectures he had delivered as a professor of philosophy at the University of JenaScruton 2000. p. 208. Fichte created his own system of transcendental philosophy in this book.{{Cite web |title=Fichte, Johann Gottlieb {{!}} Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy |url=https://iep.utm.edu/fichtejg/ |access-date=2023-12-27 |language=en-US}}

Ideas

Science of Knowledge first established Fichte's independent philosophy.{{Cite book|title=The Handy Philosophy Answer Book|url=https://archive.org/details/handyphilosophya00phdn|url-access=limited|last=Zack|first=Naomi|date=2009-09-01|publisher=Visible Ink Press|isbn=9781578592265|location=Canton, MI|pages=[https://archive.org/details/handyphilosophya00phdn/page/n236 224]}} The contents of the book, divided into eleven sections, were crucial in the way the thinker grounded philosophy as – for the first time – a part of epistemology.{{Cite book|title=Between Kant and Hegel|url=https://archive.org/details/betweenkanthegel00henr|url-access=limited|last=Henrich|first=Dieter|date=2003|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=0674007735|location=Cambridge, MA|pages=[https://archive.org/details/betweenkanthegel00henr/page/n264 208]}} In this book Fichte also claimed that an "experiencer" must be tacitly aware that he is experiencing in order to lead to "noticing".{{Cite book|title=Fichte's Foundations of Natural Right|last=Gottlieb|first=Gabriel|date=2016|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781107078147|location=Cambridge|pages=141}} This articulated his view that an individual's experience is essentially the experiencing of the act of experiencing so that his so-called "Absolutely Unconditioned Principle" of all experience is that "the I posits itself".

Reception

In 1798 the German romantic Friedrich Schlegel identified the Wissenschaftslehre together with the French Revolution and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, as "the most important trend-setting events (Tendenzen) of the age."Seidel 1993. p. 1.

Michael Inwood believes that the work is close in spirit to the works of Edmund Husserl, including Ideas (1913) and Cartesian Meditations (1931).Inwood 2005. p. 410.

The Wissenschaftslehre has been described by Roger Scruton as being both "immensely difficult" and "rough-hewn and uncouth".

References

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{{cite book |author=Inwood, M. J. |editor=Honderich, Ted |title=The Oxford Companion to Philosophy |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |year=2005 |isbn=0-19-926479-1 }}
{{cite book |author=Scruton, Roger |author-link=Roger Scruton |editor=Kenny, Anthony |title=The Oxford History of Western Philosophy |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |year=2000 |isbn=0-19-289329-7 }}
{{cite book |author=Seidel, George J. |title=Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre of 1794. A Commentary on Part 1 |publisher=Purdue University Press |location=Purdue University Research Foundation |year=1993 |isbn=1-55753-017-3 }}

Category:1794 non-fiction books

Category:Books by Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Category:Epistemology literature

Category:Philosophy of science literature