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Fichte and Recognition

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In his Foundations of Natural Right Johann Gottlieb Fichte presents and ambitious attempt to deduce a system of rights from the necessary requirements of self-consciousness. ‘Recognition’ (Anerkennung) in several senses of the term plays important roles in the deduction. This entry reconstructs Fichte’s ambivalent use of ‘recognition’ as well as that of closely related terms in the book. Fichte’s deduction is perhaps eventually a failure, but his struggle with the conflicting desiderata of his thinking is still highly instructive reading for anyone interested in or working on theories of recognition.

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    Hegel can be read as addressing this problem by working out a very different concept of freedom, one that is compatible with external conditioning. See Gleeson and Ikäheimo (2019).

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    For an account that does not consider the Foundations to be a complete failure in this sense, see Siep 1992.

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  1. University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australien

    Heikki Ikäheimo

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  1. Philosophisches Seminar, Universität Münster Philosophisches Seminar, Münster, Germany

    Ludwig Siep

  2. School of Humanities & Languages, The University of New South Wales School of Humanities & Languages, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Heikki Ikaheimo

  3. Philosophisches Seminar, Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Philosophisches Seminar, Münster, Germany

    Michael Quante

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Ikäheimo, H. (2020). Fichte and Recognition. In: Siep, L., Ikaheimo, H., Quante, M. (eds) Handbuch Anerkennung. Springer Reference Geisteswissenschaften. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-19561-8_19-1

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