Nothing more or less than logic: General logic, transcendental philosophy, and Kant's repudiation of Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre

Topoi 22 (1):29-39 (2003)
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In this paper I lay the foundations for an understanding of one of Fichte's most neglected and least understood texts: the late lecture course on Transcendental Logic. I situate this work in the context of Fichte's lifelong struggle with the problem of understanding the relation between logic and philosophy – a problem that I show to figure centrally both in Fichte's own revolutionary thinking and in his response to Kant's notorious denunciation of the Wissenschaftslehre. By attending to this context we can understand Fichte's philosophical ambitions in the late lectures: a critique of particular doctrines of general logic; a critique of the conception of thought presupposed both by the traditional logic and by Kant himself; and a new conception of the relation between logic and the philosophical theory of experience.

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Transcendental Philosophy and Atheism.Wayne M. Martin - 2008 - European Journal of Philosophy 16 (1):109-130.
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