Intro to Fichte and German Idealism The Science of Knowledge Lecture One

Because we are currently working our way through Hegels’ Phenomenology of Spirit, I thought it would be useful to spend some time revisiting Fichte’s brand of German Idealism first. Many things we normally assume are Hegelian are actually, we find, Fichtean ideas.
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0:54 Kant vs. Fichte
6:36 First Proposition
11:54 Second Proposition
13:13 Third Proposition and the Hulk
15:26 Kant Review: Synthetic vs Analytic
17:31 Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis is Fichte not Hegel!
21:38 Fichte’s Antinomy
22:47 The Power of Imagination
26:40 The Four Stances

[MiksMaTaunOlema]

Great lecture. Funnily enough I am currently reading Schopenhauer in which he just referred to fichtes writing 'windbag droning'.

[chadahaagphilosophychannel]

0:54 Kant vs. Fichte
6:36 First Proposition
11:54 Second Proposition
13:13 Third Proposition and the Hulk
15:26 Kant Review: Synthetic vs Analytic
17:31 Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis is Fichte not Hegel!
21:38 Fichte’s Antinomy
22:47 The Power of Imagination
26:40 The Four Stances

[courtneydolly]

Wow, this is an excellent lecture, thank you! I don't even know how you covered the whole book in detail in one video! I've never even heard of Fichte before. Great recommendation to follow up with after reading Kant and Hegel.

[rockyfjord]

I had adopted one philosophy and understood things pretty well; was beginning to do philosophy on
my own, that is, thinking intuitively, then reasoning critically and so on. But sampling a number of
philosophers without the guidance of the one who is foundational for me, gives me vertigo, like
leaving the security of home to be cast adrift in unknown waters. Retreating entirely into the mind

and language, the logos, also entails the danger of alienation from the external world of nature and
action, or so I think. Unlike in Physics, there is no possibility for a Unified Theory in Philosophy, we
are always going in circles trying to get back to solid foundations. Life is going to be too short for
me, having begun philosophy late in life. I'm haunted by the problem of praxis, will anything come

of intellectuals and thought, to rise to the occasion of our world in a real historical crisis, almost
in every ambit, or so it seems to me. Philosophy as 'I, Fixer.' Though as ideas go, I propose the ideal
of 'The Good Husbandman' as a symbol for the Carsonian epoch we have already entered.

[ieronim]

great video, always a pleasure to watch

[dedrainmitchell]

What is the difference between Fichte's I = I formula and Kant's theory of apperception?

[bradspitt]

Can I just replace contradiction with limit, or is there a reason people keep using that word? Hard not to see it as deliberate obfuscation.

[tehnik]

So, if I understood correctly, the riddle is that the I seems to posit and be the source of its own limits. And Fichte doesn't provide a solution?
To me it seems like Quantitative Idealism describes his position. But if you're saying it doesn't, what objection does Fichte raise to it?

[Sunfried]

Please learn how to pronounce Fichte. It's closer to Ficktuh