Description
The texts in this volume constitute highlights in the movement called transcendental idealism. Includes: Fichte's, "Some Lectures Concerning the Scholar's Vocation," and "A Crystal Clear Report to the General Public..."; Jacobi's, "On Faith and Knowledge in Response to Schelling and Hegel," and "Open Letter to Fichte, 1799"; an anonymous author's "The Oldest Systematic Program of German Idealism, 1797"; and Schelling's "Ideas on a Philosophy of Nature as an Introduction to the Study of This Science," "Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom and Related Matters," and other texts. (For other texts in German Philosophy see vols. 5, 13, 24, 27, 40, 48, and 78.)
Table of Contents
Introduction: Ernst Behler
Note on the Texts
JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE
Some Lectures Concerning the Scholar's Vocation, 1794
Translated by Daniel Breazeale
A Crystal Clear Report to the General Public Concerning the Actual Essence of the Newest Philosophy: An Attempt to Force the Reader to Undertand, 1801
Translated by John Botterman and William Rasch
FRIEDRICH HEINRICH JACOBI
Open Letter to Fichte, 1799
Translated by Diana I. Behler
On Faith and Knowledge in Response to Schelling and Hegel, 1803
Translated by Diana I. Behler
ANONYMOUS AUTHOR
The Oldest Systematic Program of German Idealism, 1797
Translated by Diana I. Behler
FRIEDRICH WILHELM JOSEPH SCHELLING
Ideas on a Philosophy of Nature as an Introduction to the Study of This Science, 1803
Translated by Priscilla Hayden-Roy
Deduction of a Universal Organ of Philosophy, or Main Propositions of the Philosophy of Art According to Principles of Transcendental Idealism, 1800
Translated by Albert Hofstadter
Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom and Related Matters, 1809
Translated by Priscilla Hayden-Roy