PHIL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Theism, Subjective Idealism, Dasein
28 Jul 2020
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According to fichte the principle of law: "limit your freedom by the concept of the freedom of all other persons with whom you come into contact, "society arises from limited freedom. In a situation of perfectly conscious and morally superior entities, this mutual respect for the right of freedom would not cause problems. But since we are in a different situation, there is a need for a power that enforces the rights. To this end, a social contract must be established and a state created as a union of wills in one. For fichte, the state is only a hypothetical necessity and could be eliminated if the members lived consciously. Both despotism and (direct) democracy are, according to fichte, rational principles. He proposed a planned economy in the economy; he can thus be considered one of the first german societies, 1 although politically he was quite na- ctionalist.
