Abstract

This paper aims at studying how Fichte appropriates Kantian definition of Enlightenment during his teaching at the University of Berlin (1810-1814). This appropriation is pointed out by three significant recurrences of the motto “Sapere aude!” in his lessons of Doctrine of Knowledge (1811), Facts of consciousness (1810/11) and Transcendental Logic (1812). I analyze these recurrences to understand, on the one hand, what kind of practice Fichte recommended his students for improvement, and on the other one, the perspective anchored in the present that grounded his conception of human history in his Doctrine of State. my goal is to characterize his Doctrine of Knowledge as a practice of critical though in actu.

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