The transcendental meaning of pure will and moral law in the Wissenschaftslehre nova methodo
pp. 331-343
in: Tom Rockmore, Daniel Breazeale (eds), Fichte and transcendental philosophy, Berlin, Springer, 2014Abstract
In the first introduction to the Wissenschaftslehre nova methodo (WLnm), Fichte declares the advantage of his new exposition over that presented in the 1794 Grundlage (GWL): "This revised version will profit from the fact that, since the time of the original version, the first principles have been further developed and extended (weiter fortgeführt), and this facilitates a clearer understanding of those principles themselves."1 The whole question is, obviously, to know what is meant by "weiter fortgeführt." In short, a clash of two interpretations occurs over the status of WLnm, which is the second version of the Wissenschaftslehre.
