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Ep. 271: Johan Gottlieb Fichte’s Transcendental Idealism (Part One)

June 7, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer 2 Comments

Subscribe to get Part 2 of this episode. Listen to a preview. Hear this part ad-free. On The Vocation of Man (1799), Books I and II, featuring Mark, Wes, Dylan and Seth. What is reality? Fichte is known as a key interpreter of Immanuel Kant who removed the idea of the "thing-in-itself," i.e. reality apart from how we interpret it, from Kant's system. Kant had described how  Continue Reading …

Ep. 271: Johan Gottlieb Fichte’s Transcendental Idealism (Part Two for Supporters)

June 6, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

Continuing from part one on The Vocation of Man (1799), Book II. Is Fichte trying to keep the notion of a "real world" beyond our experience or not? It's part of the progression of the text that while at first he assumes that there must be something real behind this experienced world we as individuals create, he gives up that notion in the middle of Book II. So how does he  Continue Reading …

Ep. 271: Johan Gottlieb Fichte’s Transcendental Idealism (Part One for Supporters)

June 5, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

On The Vocation of Man (1799), Books I and II, featuring Mark, Wes, Dylan and Seth. What is reality? Fichte is known as a key interpreter of Immanuel Kant who removed the idea of the "thing-in-itself," i.e. reality apart from how we interpret it, from Kant's system. Kant had described how human faculties impose structural features like space, time, number, and causality on  Continue Reading …

Phenomenology is Wrong

March 26, 2015 by Michael Burgess 31 Comments

We should distinguish between two traditions within phenomenology: realist phenomenology and idealist phenomenology (fathered by Heidegger and Husserl respectively). The distinguishing feature is how they treat their ‘pre-bracketed’ and ‘post-bracketed’ states: in the realist case when we interpret (describe) the world we can bracket the truth of the claims epistemologically:  Continue Reading …

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