Fichte´s Concept of Immediate Self-Consiousness: Contribution to Discussion about the Self-Consciousness of the Absolute I in Early Science of Knowledge
2013
Abstract
The first part of the paper presents Fichte´s concept of immediate self-consciousness. The author relies here among others upon the analysis put forward by Dieter Henrich in his article Fichte’s Original Insight.
In the second part, the paper inquires into the systematic role of immediate self-consciousness (which Fichte labels „intellectual intuition“) in Fichte’s early science of knowledge. This part provides arguments for the thesis that immediate self-consciousness is to be connected with the absolute I of the first principle of Foundations of the Entire Science of Knowledge.