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Fichte’s Wild Metaphysical Yarn
- Philosophical Topics
- University of Arkansas Press
- Volume 43, Numbers 1-2, Spring/Fall 2015
- pp. 87-96
- Article
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I review Adrian Moore’s lucid account of Fichte’s contribution to the Evolution of Modern Metaphysics. I support Moore’s contention that Fichte should indeed be considered a metaphysician, but I propose an adjustment to Moore’s interpretation, guided by Fichte’s own claim that the infinite I is an unattainable ideal, rather than a fact about the constitution of reality as it actually is. The resulting position embeds Fichte’s metaphysics firmly within his ethics and politics. In reconstructing Fichte’s position I demonstrate the centrality of work in Fichte’s proposed resolution of Kant’s third antinomy.