[Rarebooks] FICHTE - Das System der Sittenlehre...

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JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE, Das System der Sittenlehre nach den Principien der 
Wissenschaftslehre, (The System of a Theory of Ethics as Based on the Science of 
Knowledge). Christian Ernst Gabler, Jena und Leipzig, 1798. FIRST EDITION. 

$750.

TP + [I]-XVIII + [XIX]-[XX] = Publisher's notices + [XXI-XXII] = Inhalt + 
[1]-494, small Octavo. FIRST EDITION. (Lauth/Jacob 36; Baumgartner/Jacobs A1.36x) 
Contemporary pasteboards with gold-lettered label on spine. Spine edges, top 
and bottom are worn but overall a well preserved and very presentable binding. 
Internally a very good copy.  

"The practical [side of his system] was expounded in the 'Foundation of 
Natural Right', c. 1796, and the 'System of a Theory of Morals', 1798" (PMM, p. 
147). 

"But Fichte was very far from concentrating exclusively on the theoretical 
deduction of consciousness. He laid great stress on the moral end of the 
development of consciousness or, in more concrete terms, on the moral purpose of 
human existence. And we find him publishing in 1796 the Basis of Natural Right 
(Grundlage de Naturrechts) and in 1798 The System of Ethics (Das System der 
Sittenlehre). Both subjects are said to be treated 'according to the principles of 
the theory of science'... But the works are much more than mere appendages to 
the Wissenschaftslehre. For they display the true character of Fichte's 
philosophy, that is, as a system of ethical idealism." (Copelston, 7, I, p. 52)


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