Kant, Fichte, and the Legacy of Transcendental Idealism

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by  Halla Kim, Steven Hoeltzel (eds.)

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Kant, Fichte, and the Legacy
of Transcendental Idealism

Kant, Fichte, and the Legacy
of Transcendental Idealism
Edited by
Halla Kim and Steven Hoeltzel
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1. Kant, Immanuel, 1724–1804. 2. Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 1762–1814. 3. Idealism,
German. 4. Transcendentalism. I. Kim, Halla, 1964–II. Hoeltzel, Steven, 1969–
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Contents
Key to Abbreviations vii
Introduction: Kantian Themes and Post-Kantian Problems:
Some Context for the Collection xi
Halla Kim and Steven Hoeltzel
1 Self-Love, Sociability, and Autonomy:
Some Presuppositions of Kant’s Account of Practical Law 1
Jeffrey Edwards
2 The Virtuous Republic: Rousseau and Kant on the Relation
between Civil and Moral Religion 31
Günter Zöller
3 Kant, Pistorius, and Accessing Reality 53
Halla Kim
4 Kant, Fichte, and Transcendental Idealism 77
Tom Rockmore
5 Fichte’s Project: The Jena Wissenschaftslehre 101
Daniel Breazeale
6 The Unity of Reason in Kant and Fichte 129
Steven Hoeltzel
7 Idealism and Nihilism 153
Benjamin D. Crowe
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vi Contents
8 Fichte and Semantic Holism 169
Yukio Irie
9 “In and of Itself Nothing Is Finite”:
Schelling’s Nature (or So-called Identity) Philosophy 191
Michael Vater
10 Conceptual Schemes, Realism, and Idealism:
A Hegelian Approach to Concepts and Reality 213
Christian Tewes
Index 237
About the Editors and Contributors 243
Key to Abbreviations
Primary texts referenced repeatedly throughout the volume are cited in the
notes using the following abbrevations.
KANT
A/B Critique of Pure Reason, Ak 1; Ca Critique of Pure Reason.
Ak Gesammelte Schriften, ed. Royal Prussian Academy and succes-
sors (Berlin, later Berlin/New York: Reimer, later de Gruyter,
1900–).
Ca Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant (New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1992–).
CPrR Critique of Practical Reason, Ak 5; Ca Practical Philosophy.
G Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Ak 4, Ca Practical
Philosophy.
MM Metaphysics of Morals, Ak 6; Ca Practical Philosophy.
P Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysic, Ak 4; Ca Theoretical
Philosophy after 1781.
FICHTE
BWL Über den Begriff der Wissenschaftslehre.
EPW Early Philosophical Writings, ed. and trans. Daniel Breazeale
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988).
FNR Foundations of Natural Right, ed. Frederick Neuhouser, trans.
Michael Baur (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
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viii Key to Abbreviations
FTP Foundations of Transcendental Philosophy (Wissenschafts-
lehre) nova methodo, ed. and trans. Daniel Breazeale (Ithaca,
NY: Cornell University Press, 1992).
FW Johann Gottlieb Fichtes sämmtliche Werke, ed. I. H. Fichte, 8
vols. (Berlin: Veit, 1845–1846).
GA J. G. Fichte-Gesamtausgabe der Bayerischen Akademie der
Wissenschaften, ed. Erich Fuchs, Hans Gliwitzky, Reinhard
Lauth, Peter K. Schneider, and Günter Zöller, 41 vols. in 4 series
(Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 1964).
GNR Grundlage des Naturrechts.
GWL Grundlage der gesammten Wissenschaftslehre.
IWL Introductions to the Wissenschaftslehre and Other Writings, ed.
and trans. Daniel Breazeale (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1994).
SA Studientextausgabe: Die späten wissenschaftlichen Vorlesungen
(1809–1814), ed. Hans Georg von Manz, Erich Fuchs, Reinhard
Lauth, Ives Radrizzani, and Martin Siegel, 6 vols. (Stuttgart-Bad
Canstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 2000–).
SE System of Ethics, ed. and trans. Daniel Breazeale and Günter
Zöller (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
SK Science of Knowledge, with the First and Second Introductions,
ed. and trans. Peter Heath and John Lachs (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1982).
SS System der Sittenlehre.
WLnm[H] Wissenschaftslehre nova methodo, “Halle Nachshrift” 1796/97.
WLnm[K] Wissenschaftslehre nova methodo, “Krause Nachschrift”
1798/99.
VM The Vocation of Man, trans. Peter Preuss (Indianapolis, IN:
Hackett, 1987).
JACOBI
MPW The Main Philosophical Writings and the Novel Allwill, ed. and
trans. George di Giovanni (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s Univer-
sity Press, 1994).
SCHELLING
FO First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature, trans.
Keith R. Peterson (Albany: State University of New York Press,
2004).
Key to Abbreviations ix
IPN Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature, trans. Errol E. Harris and Peter
Heath (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
PRFS The Philosophical Rupture between Fichte and Schelling:
Selected Texts and Correspondence (1800–1802), ed. and trans.
Michael Vater and David W. Wood (Albany: State University of
New York Press, 2012).
SW Schellings sämmtliche Werke, ed. K. F. A. Schelling (Stuttgart &
Ausburg: Cotta, 1856–1861); reproduced in a new arrangement,
ed. Manfred Schröter (Munich: Beck, 1962).
HEGEL
EL Logic: Part I of the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences,
trans. T. F. Gerates, W. A. Suchting, and H. S. Harris (Indianap-
olis: Hackett, 1991). References to the student notes are marked
by a ‘Z’ after the section number.
EN Philosophy of Nature: Part II of the Encyclopedia of the Philo-
sophical Sciences, trans. M. Petry, 3 vols. (London: George
Allen and Unwin, 1970). References to the student notes are
marked by a ‘Z’ after the section number.
PS Phenomenology of Spirit, trans. A. V. Miller (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1977).
SL Hegel’s Science of Logic, trans. A. V. Miller (London: Allen and
Unwin, 1969).