FRIEDRICH H. JACOBI AND THE PROBLEM OF NIHILISM (Friedrich H. Jacobi i problem nihilizmu)

• Authors: Dehnel Piotr
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The paper is devoted to the history of the notion of nihilism which was introduced to German philosophy in the 18th century by Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743-1819) as a critique of transcendental philosophy of Kant and Fichte. The Kantian subject and the Fichtean 'I' are both pure intellectual constructs that turn everything outside of themselves into nothing, which is why their theories are nihilism. In his critique of Kant and Fichte, Jacobi rejects the idea of philosophy as a science that deduces all its content from one subjective principle. Philosophy should be based on something what cannot be reduced to thought.

Keywords

EN

CRITIQUE OF TRANSCENDENTAL PHILOSOPHY; JACOBI FRIEDRICH HEINRICH; NIHILISM

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Warsaw University, Institute of Philosophy, Institute of Polish Literature and Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
• Journal: Przegląd Filozoficzno-Literacki
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 2(27)
• Pages: 135-152
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Dehnel Piotr

• Piotr Dehnel, Dolnoslaska Szkola Wyzsza we Wroclawiu, Katedra Filozofii i Logiki, ul. Wagonowa 9, 53-809 Wroclaw, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA085515