Nihilismo del Idealismo

Jacobi frente a Fichte

in: Verano/Verão 2010, Revista de estud(i)os sobre Fichte 1, 2010.

Abstract

This article presents an initial approach to the philosophical problems at the ground of the discussion between Jacobi and Fichte at the end of the nineteenth century. I begin with a discussion of Jacobi's criticism against Fichte. I analyse both Jacobi's conception of Fichte's philosophy as nihilism and Jacobi's idea of the relationship between reason and nature. I then present the different answers Fichte offers in 1799, 1804, 1807 and 1812-13. As a conclusion I present some considerations about the modern idea of freedom and autonomy of reason as it can be founded in Fichte's philosophy.

Cited authors

Fichte Johann Gottlieb