The Difference Between Fichte's and Schelling's System of Philosophy: An English Translation of G. W. F. Hegel's Differenz des Fichte'schen und Schelling'schen Systems der Philosophie / Edition 1

by G.W.F. Hegel

Overview

In this essay, Hegel attempted to show how Fichte's Science of Knowledge was an advance from the position of Kant in the Critique of Pure Reason, and how Schelling (and incidentally Hegel himself) had made a further advance from the position of Fichte.

Hegel finds the idealism of Fichte too abstractly subjective and formalistic, and he tries to show how Schelling's philosophy of nature is the remedy for these weaknesses. But the most important philosophical content of the essay is probably to be found in his general introduction to these critical efforts where he deals with a number of problems about philosophical method in a way which is of general interest to philosophers, and not merely interesting to those who accept the Hegelian "dialectic method" which grew out of these first beginnings. Finally, the Difference essay is important in the development of "Nature-Philosophy" as a movement in the history of science.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780887068270
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	03/04/1988
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	213
Sales rank:	706,082
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Walter Cerf is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the City University of New York. H. S. Harris is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Glendon College, York University.