Fichte und Sartre über Freiheit: Das Ich und der Andere by Waibel Violetta L

Author:Waibel, Violetta L. [Waibel, Violetta L.]
Language: deu
Format: epub
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2015-04-16T16:00:00+00:00

Far from being the instrument of deception, as Rationalist philosophers have warned, the imagination is ingredient in our very grasp of the truth. Indeed, Fichte slips into an apotheosis of the faculty as he prepares to move from the theoretical to the practical reason in Wissenschaftslehre:

Our doctrine here is therefore that all reality – for us being understood as it cannot be otherwise understood in a system of transcendental philosophy - is brought forth solely by the imagination. One of the greatest thinkers of our age, whose teaching, as I understand it, is the same, calls this a deception on the part of the imagination. But to every deception a truth must be opposed, and there must be a means of escaping it. Yet if it is now proved, as the present system claims to prove it, that this act of imagination forms the basis for the possibility of our consciousness, our life, our existence for ourselves, that is, our existence as I’s, then it cannot be eliminated, unless we are to abstract from the I; which is a contradiction, since it is impossible that what does the abstracting should abstract from itself. Hence the act is not a deception, but gives us truth, and the only possible truth. To suppose that it deceives us would be a scepticism that told us to doubt our own existence.403

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