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Lucas Damián Scarfia, Fichte on Trial. The Atheist, the Nihilist, the Democrat

Abstract

In this article I intend to elucidate the meaning of the accusations by the Electorate of Saxony  —and others unofficial—, which J. G. Fichte received in the framework of the Atheism Dispute (Atheismusstreit), according to which his idealistic thought was seen as atheistic. In turn, in this context, the philosopher was accused of nihilism and, according to his own reading of the accusations, was branded as a Jacobin-democrat. The aim is to identify in his works —Grundlage der gesamten Wissenschaftslehre (1794-1795), the first version of his philosophical system, as well as in the Revolutionsschriften (1793-1794) and in the texts he wrote in the context of the Dispute (1798-1799)— those nodes on which the above-mentioned labels are based. In this sphere, reference is also made to his philosophical relationship with F. H. Jacobi, who played a significant role in the sphere of the Dispute. He criticized him and demarcated a dichotomy between his religious thinking and moral-idealism à la Fichte. The purpose of this analysis is to shed light on Fichte’s own ideas, and at the same time to argue that the labels that were given to his person as well as to his philosophy do indeed have a certain basis —even when, at times, Fichte tried to disassociate himself from them. This analysis delineates the metaphysical distinction between an idealistic and a dogmatic philosophy as well as the differences in their practical implications that entail the vindication of idealism as a philosophy of freedom and equality.

Key words: Fichte, Morality, Atheism, Nihilism, Democratism

Lucas Damián Scarfia, Fichte on Trial. The Atheist, the Nihilist, the Democrat

Santiago Napoli, Fichte y la contradicción del libertinismo liberal

Abstract

In this article I aim to show the intrinsic contradiction to what I call liberal libertinism. For this purpose, I make use of what Fichte developed in his Beitrag zur Berichtigung der Urtheile des Publikums über die französische Revolution (1793/1794) as well as the conceptual framework of contemporary normative philosophy. Throughout the paper, I present Fichte’s position in the Beitrag on the normative nature of the human being and the foundation of the domains of natural law, contracts in general, and civil contract in particular. Once the Fichtean juridical-moral scheme has been made explicit, I argue and unveil the performative contradiction within the libertine moral and political conception. Finally, I present some final considerations concerning the current political situation and practical philosophy.

Keywords

Normativism, Freedom, Contradiction, Morality, Consciousness

Santiago Napoli, Fichte y la contradicción del libertinismo liberal

Maurizio Trudu, Johann Gottlieb Fichte: Oltre i confini dell’atteggiamento Naturale

07/02/2025

Abstract 

This paper examines the philosophy of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, focusing on the concept of transcending the natural attitude towards an understanding of knowledge. Fichte introduces the notion of a philosophical “experiment,” wherein the intuition of the ‘I’ emerges as pivotal for accessing a higher truth, through detachment from ordinary world perception. This paper delves into the “negative moment” of this process, namely the transition of abstraction from the everyday, crucial for freeing oneself from the constraints imposed by direct perception and empirical knowledge, thereby enabling free and transcendental reflection.

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