German and Temporality: the Wissenschaftslehre in Fichte's Addresses to the German Nation
German and Temporality: the Wissenschaftslehre in Fichte's Addresses to the German Nation

Summary/Abstract: This essay aims to demonstrate how, in Addresses to the German Nation, the Fichtean polemic against Dogmatismus is determined under the concept of temporality and, in particular, within the dimension of the Geschichstphilosophie. As is known, the entire Fichtean work (from the juvenile Revolutionsschriften up to the late Staatslehre, printed in 1813) is dotted with stands against the dogmatic and fatalistic conceptions of history, where the latter is reduced to an automatic process, independent from human action. Fichte opposes to these perspectives - in line with the principles of the WL and the "system of liberty" - a conception of historicity as a non-deductible "series" (Reihe) of human actions that articulate themselves over time. The Reden an die deutsche Nation of 1808 will be the basis for an examination of the Fichtean conception of temporality and, in particular, to see how the fight between WL and Dogmatismus translates into a new form, that is, a stance against the circular Zeitauffassung.

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