{"id":4879,"date":"2010-02-07T16:31:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T20:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=4879"},"modified":"2010-02-07T17:02:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T21:02:08","slug":"on-hegel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2010\/02\/07\/on-hegel\/","title":{"rendered":"on Hegel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Fichte<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Given the fact that an individual shares the external world with other free subjects, this is possible only if individuality is recognized by those other beings as setting limits to their own free agency. This mutual recognition [Anerkennung] is an important influence on Hegel\u2019s move from subjectivity to intersubjectivity.<\/p>\n<p>Mutual recognition, or &#8230; subjectivity requires intersubjectivity. Furthermore, rights cannot be deduced from ethical individualism but require intersubjectivity. In a sense, Fichte is criticizing all previous philosophies, particularly those dealing with rights, for not first demonstrating the need for intersubjectivity, or the impossibility of thinking of the individual as isolated, which he sees as the same thing. For Fichte, intersubjectivity is a necessary condition for the very existence of individuality and self-awareness. The idea of natural rights outside of a community is a fiction:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There is no condition in which original rights exist; and no original rights of human beings. The human being has actual rights only in community with others, just as\u2014according to the higher principles noted above\u2014the human being can be thought of only in community with others. An original right, therefore, is a mere fiction, but one that must necessarily be created for the sake of a science of right.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thus, it is impossible to think of rights without thinking of an individual in relation to other individuals. Hegel\u2019s attempt to reconcile individual liberty with community follows Fichte\u2019s lead. Nor, for Fichte, can we think of free beings as existing together unless their rights mutually limit each other (39).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fichte Given the fact that an individual shares the external world with other free subjects, this is possible only if individuality is recognized by those other beings as setting limits to their own free agency. This mutual recognition [Anerkennung] is an important influence on Hegel\u2019s move from subjectivity to intersubjectivity. Mutual recognition, or &#8230; subjectivity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2010\/02\/07\/on-hegel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;on Hegel&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,100,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-hegel","category-subjectivity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4879"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4881,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4879\/revisions\/4881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}