Diagram of Fichte's absolute ego

Module 4

[luke]

Your diagrams and explanations are absolutely brilliant. I am in my M.A of philosophy, and I think that if you are able to produce these visual representations relating to difficult philosophical concepts and ideologies, you will produce a fantastic channel. Not all heroes wear capes my bro. Great work!

[kirkaur]

This is a wonderful explanation. Thank you.

[titusmwau]

Your explanations are clear and distinct. Thanks for being precise

[gv]

Outstanding. I look forward to more of these.

[Audrey-boer]

Great video, very easy to follow. Thank you

[MP-pyji]

Excellent video! Thanks for sharing. This reminds me alot of the Hyperian philosophy of minds and the community of Gods in gnostic writings.

[jayarava]

I think the explanation is clear enough for a philosophical idea that is wholly implausible and obviously based on a shallow reading of the Upaniṣads. Thanks, again.

[mirek]

Fichte is forgotten one :) I like to see not entirely. I remembered him while listening to some buddhist lecture about ego and Ego. Wonderfull how european thiniking correlate with old teachings. The same with Heidegger or even Hegel.

[riccardonecci]

THANK YOU!
I'll be shining at my philosophy exam ;)
My teacher taught me this topic without talking about society and social self... THANKS AGAIN🥰

[Nopesky]

That was great. It drove me crazy that I couldnt raise my hand and ask questions during the video though lol

[aliquegoris]

Thank you so much for this video. I didn't understand it at all before watching your vid, and now I might actually get a good grade for my exam :p. But honestly, you made it a lot less abstract, that's a talent.

[leilandralunimus]

Hey, me and my study group loved your video. Thanks for your content. Would you have any explanation to Fichte's Synthesis E?

[terrywhelan]

Reminds me of Sartre: "Hell is other people."

[obscureredtheoryaudiobookc]

interesting diagrams, perhaps you should produce an written version of your explanatory diagrams?

[Archiveofobscurity]

Great video! Doing phlosophy at a time of high anxiety is my way to happiness :)

I was fairly sympathetic with Fichte until he mentioned the annihilation of nature part! What a boring world it would be if everything was smoothed over for the comforts of man. Fichte needs a wild holiday to set him straight! ;)

[odalchiszaratutu]

this was so useful! thank you so much!!

[christdiedforoursins]

Fichte's ideas were used alot in apartheid south africa. Thank you im reading a book on this trying to see how it could of effected politics .

[michaelcarrig]

This seems similar to Deleuze’s diagram of Bergson’s Matter and Sense.

[FreshJordans]

What should I read by him as someone who has never read fichte?

[apostalote]

It's interesting, for Kant the categories are a priori and the category of causality, which is utterly dependent, on the pure manifold of space and time, allows for the possibility of the moral law which is predicated on a sort of free causality. The representation of the moral law is therefore bound up and subordinate to the pure concept of causal relations. The pure concept of causality being an a priori representation cognized through the analytical process of reducing the mind to its basic elements and structure, or pure reason. Whereas free causality and the moral law is a synthetic a priori representation stemming from practical reason regarding conduct with other moral agents. The possibility of this synthetic a priori proposition is only realized through the work done by Kant in the paralogisms where he invokes the transcendental split to allow for the recognition of the other as a rational being and moral agent.

For Fichte, the moral law seems to be analogous to the pure manifold of space and time for Kant as it is a pure presentation that allows for the possibility of intelligibility. The transcendental subject is no longer just engaging in an active act of synthesis, it understands its freedom and its freedom constitutes its essence as an immediate presentation.

Keep in mind I've never read Fichte, I've studied a good deal of Kant but this is just what I'm discerning from this video alone. I'm not the best writer and am not well enough acquainted with philosphy to the point and I can easily boil down these difficult concepts into fewer, less obfuscating words. Nevertheless, I can see parallels between Fichtes thought and Levinas and Sartre who elevated the ethical to the a priori. Also Fichte invokes the transcendental distinction that Kant established in the paralogisms.

This was a great video and I'd love to hear your thoughts on the a priori character of Fichtes 'absolute I'. It seems as though practical reason is a priori possible, whereas 'pure' reason is a subset of this originate practical reason or reconfirmed of the 'I's freedom