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109Agency and Evil in Fichte’s EthicsPhilosophers' Imprint 15. 2015.This paper examines Fichte's proof of evil in §16 of the System of Ethics. According to the majority of commentators, Fichte was mistaken to consider his proof Kantian in spirit (Piché 1999; Kosch 2006, 2011; Dews 2008; and Breazeale 2014). For rather than locate our propensity to evil in an act of free choice, Fichte locates it in a natural force of inertia. However, the distance between Kant and Fichte begins to close if we read his concept of inertia, not as a material force, but as a tendenc…Read more
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19th Century Philosophy |
German Idealism |
Immanuel Kant |
Johann Gottlieb Fichte |
Indian Philosophy |
Romanticism |
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Kant: Ethics |
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