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<DIV>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. </DIV>
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<DIV>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. </DIV>
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<DIV>"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). </DIV>
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<DIV>"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 (<EM>Grundlage de Naturrechts</EM>) and in 1798 The System of Ethics (<EM>Das System der Sittenlehre</EM>). 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 <EM>Wissenschaftslehre</EM>. For they display the true character of Fichte's philosophy, that is, as a system of ethical idealism." (Copelston, 7, I, p. 52)<BR></DIV>
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