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Fichte: The System of Ethics

Hardback

Main Details

Title Fichte: The System of Ethics
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Edited by Daniel Breazeale
Edited by Guenter Zoeller
SeriesCambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:448
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreWestern philosophy - c 1600 to c 1900
ISBN/Barcode 9780521571401
ClassificationsDewey:170 170
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 17 November 2005
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Fichte's System of Ethics, published in 1798, is at once the most accessible presentation of its author's comprehensive philosophical project, The Science of Knowledge or Wissenschaftslehre, and the most important work in moral philosophy written between Kant and Hegel. Fichte's ethics integrates the discussion of our moral duties into the systematic framework of a transcendental theory of the human subject. Its major philosophical themes include the practical nature of self-consciousness, the relation between reason and volition, the essential role of the drives in human willing, the possibility of changing the natural world, the reality of one's own body, the reality of other human beings, and the practical necessity of social relations between human beings. This volume offers a new translation of the work together with an introduction that sets it in its philosophical and historical contexts.

Author Biography

Daniel Breazeale is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky. Gunter Zoeller is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Munich.