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Fichte's New Wine*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

H. S. Harris
Affiliation:
Glendon College, York University

Extract

We all know that there are many different kinds of “thing”; and what we mean, when we say something to that effect, is usually that things behave differently from one another, or react differently in different circumstances. Among the things to which these generalizations apply, we normally count both ourselves and other people. It was natural enough, therefore, for the philosophers to develop a theory of human nature as made up of a variety of faculties and powers (or “passions”). For this provides a convenient way of classifying and comparing our behaviours and reactions.

Type
Critical Notices/Études critiques
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1993

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References

Notes

1 Fichte, J. F., The Science of Knowledge with the First and Second Introductions, translated by Heath, Peter and Lachs, John (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982).Google Scholar

2 di Giovanni, George and Harris, H. S., eds., Between Kant and Hegel (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1985)Google Scholar; Beiser, Frederick C., The Fate of Reason (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987)Google Scholar; Fichte, J. G., Early Philosophical Writings, translated by Breazeale, Daniel (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988).Google Scholar