By David James
ISBN-10: 1107001552
ISBN-13: 9781107001558
During this learn of Fichte's social and political philosophy, David James deals an interpretation of Fichte's most renowned writings during this quarter, together with his Foundations of usual correct and Addresses to the German kingdom, concentrated on major topics: estate and advantage. those subject matters give you the foundation for a dialogue of such matters as what it potential to assure the liberty of all of the voters of a nation, the matter of unequal kin of financial dependence among states, and the variations and connections among the felony and political sphere of correct and morality. James additionally relates Fichte's valuable social and political rules to these of different very important figures within the background of philosophy, together with Locke, Kant and Hegel, in addition to to the novel section of the French Revolution. His account could be of value to all who're attracted to Fichte's philosophy and its highbrow and political context
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This possibility by itself suggests that although Fichte thinks that individual persons will have an exclusive right to property in the form of the land and goods they need in order to be able to live from their labour, they may be nevertheless required to give up at least some of this property should the need arise. They cannot, therefore, be said to have the unlimited right to dispose of this property as they please, even if they have the right to exclude others from the use or benefit of it, though only to the extent that this is necessary for them to be able to live from their labour.
Renaut associates the thesis of this antinomy with liberalism and the antithesis with authoritarianism, and he seeks to show how Fichte resolves the antimony by synthesizing the thesis and antithesis by means of the idea that the all-powerful sovereign is law, which is itself the expression of the sovereignty of the general will, in which there exists a perfect union of all individual wills. Although Renaut is certainly correct to stress the importance of the applicability of the concept of right, my account of Fichte’s theory of property suggests that his characterization of the thesis of the antimony that he identifies is wrong.
Fi c h te ’ s t h e o r y of pr o p e r t y 23 of human subjectivity and as a central concern of a theory of right strongly suggests, in the absence of any indications to the contrary, that Neuhouser has in mind the right to exclude others from the use or benefit of something and the entitlement to dispose of it as one pleases. While this conception of property corresponds to the liberal understanding of property rights, when Neuhouser states that Fichte’s theory of right provides a framework for defending ideas later espoused by socialist thinkers, he presumably has in mind the redistributive measures that Fichte proposes in the second part of the Foundations of Natural Right.
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