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Title Fichte's Foundations of natural right : a critical guide / edited by Gabriel Gottlieb
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016

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Series Cambridge critical guides
Cambridge critical guides.
Contents Cover; Half title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; I; II; III; 1 Fichte's Foundations of Natural Right and its Relation to Kant; Fichte's Doctrine of Right and the Idea of the "Practical"; The "Deduction" of the Concept of Right and the Individuality of Self-Consciousness; Kant's Practical Philosophy: Transcendental Foundation and Metaphysical Application; The Universal Law of Right and the Highest Principle of Morality; 2 Fichte's Separation of Right from Morality
Personhood Personhood as the Foundation of Right; The Significance of Separating Right from Morality; 3 Fichte's Independence Thesis; The Dependence Thesis; The Derivation of the Concept of a Right in General; The Derivation of the Distinction between Inalienable and Alienable Rights; The Independence Thesis; The Deduction of the Concept of Right; The Rejection of the Dependence Thesis; The Independence Thesis and the Separation Thesis; 4 Deduction of the Summons and the Existence of Other Rational Beings; Fichte's Synthetic Method of Transcendental Philosophy
The Starting Point of the Deduction Deduction of the Object of Present Free Action; Deduction of the Summons; Inference to Other Rational Beings as the Cause of the Summons; The Summons to Rational Activity as Education or Upbringing (Erziehung); The Summons as the Ground of Individuality; 5 Fichte's Kabbalistic Realism: Summons as z.imz.um; What's the Problem?; Kabbalistic Realism as Desideratum; Vicious and Virtuous Circles; Violence, Communicative Action, and Normativity; Conclusion: Anti-Semitism and Nihilism; 6 Fichte's Developmental View of Self-Consciousness
The Pure I and the Individual I Human Beings, Individuality, and the Interrelationist Tradition; Elementary Recognition and the Developmental View; Nature, Reason, and Development; Conclusion; 7 The Body as Site of Action and Intersubjectivity in Fichte's Foundations of Natural Right; "I" as First Principle of Knowledge and Action; The Summons as Medium of Freedom; Expressing Mutual Recognition; Conclusion: The Human Body; 8 Fichte's Transcendental Deduction of Private Property; A Fichtean Critique of Locke; "Here Lies the Ground of All Property Rights."
Fichtean Work and the Self-Positing Gambit A Tale of Two Emperors; The Deductive Strategy; Two Outstanding Problems; 9 Fichte on Personal Freedom and the Freedom of Others; Right and Recognition; The Conditional Nature of Right; Right and Freedom; 10 Freedom, Coercion, and the Relation of Right; The Hegelian Objection; The Relation of Right in Natural Right 4; Self-Limitation; Reciprocity; Expression; Freedom; The Relation of Right: Three Contexts; The Summons; The Civil Contract as Reciprocal Recognition; Rightful Relations Among Citizens; Critical Assessment and Conclusion
Summary This Guide examines Fichte's main political concepts including morality, the summons, social contract, freedom, the body and human rights
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 20, 2016)
Subject Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 1762-1814. Grundlage des Naturrechts nach Principien der Wissenschaftslehre.
SUBJECT Grundlage des Naturrechts nach Principien der Wissenschaftslehre (Fichte, Johann Gottlieb) fast
Subject Natural law.
Political science.
State, The.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
Natural law
Political science
State, The
Form Electronic book
Author Gottlieb, Gabriel, editor
ISBN 9781316778418
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9781316777978
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