PHIL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Practical Philosophy, Noumenon, Intuition
28 Jul 2020
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Continuing the kantian tradition, fichte aims to put in its philosophy the secure and axiomatic foundations for all sciences. Philosophy is thus "poured into" the science of sciences or - as the main theoretical work says - into "theory of science" (wissenschaftslehre). Each science is a set of propositions, which are the results of deductive inferences based on a foundational or basic proposition. Philosophy as the basis of all sciences is a deductive system based on a fundamental proposition that can no longer be demonstrated, because it is the main axiom. Fichte then conceives of philosophy as a set of deductive-derived propositions based on a basic proposition, like spinoza. The determination of this basic proposition (grundsatz) depends on personal factors such as inclination and interest; the choice of the type of philosophy that we make depends on the type of man we are. According to fichte there is a fundamental alternative.
