Clarke, James Alexander orcid.org/0000-0002-9916-9708 (2014) Fichte, Hegel, and the Life and Death Struggle. British Journal for the History of Philosophy. pp. 81-103. ISSN 1469-3526
Abstract
Several commentators have argued that Hegel’s account of ‘self-consciousness’ in Chapter IV of the Phenomenology of Spirit can be read as an ‘immanent critique’ of Fichte’s idealism. If this is correct, it raises the question of whether Hegel’s account of ‘recognition’ in Chapter IV can be interpreted as a critique of Fichte’s conception of recognition as expounded in the Foundations of Natural Right. A satisfactory answer to this question will have to provide a plausible interpretation of the ‘life and death struggle’ as an immanent critique of Fichte’s account of recognition. This paper aims to provide such an interpretation. The first part of the paper provides a discussion of Fichte’s account of recognition that emphasizes its ‘epistemic’ concerns. The second part argues that Hegel’s account of the ‘life and death struggle’ can be read plausibly as a critique of Fichte’s account of recognition.
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > Philosophy (York) |
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Date Deposited: | 27 Apr 2017 09:00 |
Last Modified: | 08 Feb 2025 00:16 |
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Refereed: | Yes |
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