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Often appears with: will, choice, and freedom · kant vs fichte · justice as a virtue · immanent ethics · categorical imperative
Usually: reflection (1) · censure (1)
“Society is not a brand-new order of things supervening upon and superseding a state of nature, where the individual was entirely self-supporting.” Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Philosophy of Mind · insight
The author presents Fichte as advancing beyond Kant by making ethics immanent: law and morality arise from the same rational-social development that makes humans intelligent, rather than from an external “voice of duty,” and it contrasts this with Kant’s ascetic-leaning treatment of sensibility.
the concrete and empirical moral agent—the actual ego of actual life—from the abstract, unconditioned ego, which in order to be actual must condescend to be at once determining and determined. In all of this Fichte makes—especially formally—a decided advance upon Kant. In Ethics Kant in particular, (—especially for readers who never got beyond the beginning of his moral treatise and were overpowered by the categoric…