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(Trieb) in the System, but as a Fichtean and expansive form of will, geared towards an "object" and towards "self-interest," even if "blindly"
'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008
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Novalis's work is neither strictly speaking Kantian nor strictly speaking Fichtean in spirit.
Georg Friedrich Philipp von Hardenberg [Novalis] Gjesdal, Kristin 2009
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And in the Fichtean image now transplanted into biblical history, Hannah should want this too.
Abraham Geiger. 2009
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It was also at about this time that Fichtean metaphysical idealism came to “capture his imagination.”
Hermann Weyl Bell, John L. 2009
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“Fichtean philosophy is a call to self-activity,” insists Novalis (FS #567).
Georg Friedrich Philipp von Hardenberg [Novalis] Gjesdal, Kristin 2009
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It was reserved for his Fichtean and Hegelian successors to call it the first Principle of Philosophy, to spell its name in capitals and pronounce it with adoration, to act, in short, as if they were going up in a balloon, whenever the notion of it crossed their mind.
Coming distractions Matthew Guerrieri 2006
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The general reader encountering so complex a story, unclear perhaps about terms left undefined "positivism," "Fichtean idealism", awash in proper names of barely distinguishable minor clerics and the unmemorable long titles of their numerous theological writings, may wonder whether the professor's history is comprehensive to a fault.
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In his later linguistic writings, discussed below, he developed a communicative model of human speech that can be seen as an extension and transformation of the Fichtean concept of the intersubjective
Wilhelm von Humboldt Mueller-Vollmer, Kurt 2007
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During Humboldt's Jena period the problem of the relationship between thinking, language and reality that seemed to have been settled once and for all by rationalist (Descartes, Leibniz) and empiricist (Locke, Condillac) thinkers alike, became an open question again for Humboldt, who looked at it from the new perspective that Kantian and Fichtean philosophy had opened up.
Wilhelm von Humboldt Mueller-Vollmer, Kurt 2007
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The general reader encountering so complex a story, unclear perhaps about terms left undefined "positivism," "Fichtean idealism", awash in proper names of barely distinguishable minor clerics and the unmemorable long titles of their numerous theological writings, may wonder whether the professor's history is comprehensive to a fault.
Philocrites: 'American Transcendentalism' watch: Globe review. 2007
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