Abstract

GABRIEL, MARKUS. (KNOWLEDGE AND MORAL CONSCIOUSNESS. Fichte or the Double Truth of Skepticism). Ideas y Valores [online]. 2006, vol.55, n.132, pp.75-100. ISSN 0120-0062.

Abstract: The paper offers a systematic reconstruction of the outlines of Fichte's Vocation of Man in the light of some recent developments in the metaphysics of intentionality. I intend to show that Fichte discovers a double "truth of skepticism". Firstly, skepticism ought to be understood as the insight that our knowledge regarding the world as a whole cannot be based on the model of empirical knowledge. Secondly, this insight leads to a reflection upon our moral standpoint towards the world. Since the world as such is not an object, but a presupposition of inquiry, our concepts of the world as such reveal more about our decision as to how to conceptualize totality, than about any fact which might be grasped by purely theoretical knowledge. Thus, Fichte's primacy of the practical stands in opposition to the naturalistic metaphysics of our time, which objectifies the world by defining it as the given totality of all modally robust facts.

Keywords : Fichte; skepticism; The Vocation of Man; moral.

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