This paper focuses on the basic features of Fichte’s doctrine of perception as laid down in his Thatsachen des Bewußtseyns aus dem ws 1811/12. Special attention is given to Fichte’s analysis of external perception and of the role played by extension as an essential component of it. In Fichte’s view, extension is characterized by, among other things, the fact that it presupposes some kind of freedom. This is closely related to Fichte’s view that freedom is not something whose representation is (...) just added to other representations. According to him, it is the reverse: freedom is already entailed in many other representations – it is a determining, if tacit factor that decisively shapes many other representations viz. their content.Dieser Beitrag befasst sich mit wesentlichen Aspekten der Wahrnehmungslehre Fichtes, wie sie in seinen Thatsachen des Bewußtseyns aus dem WS 1811/12 dargelegt wird. Das Hauptaugenmerk liegt auf Fichtes Erörterung der äußeren Wahrnehmung und insbesondere auf seiner Herausarbeitung der Ausdehnung als eines wesentlichen Bestandteils der äußeren Wahrnehmung. Fichte zufolge zeichnet sich die Ausdehnung unter anderem dadurch aus, dass sie eine Art Freiheit voraussetzt. Dies hängt mit seiner Grundthese zusammen, dass die Freiheit nicht etwas ist, dessen Vorstellung zu dem ‚Bestand‘ unserer anderen Vorstellungen hinzukommt, sondern vielmehr einen bedingenden Faktor anderer Vorstellungen bildet, welcher ihre Beschaffenheit und ihren ‚Inhalt‘ entscheidend mitprägt. (shrink)

Images are usually understood as something perceived: as something presented to us and different from us. But since Antiquity the concept has also been given a different meaning: it has been used to describe our own being, and indeed so much so that it also stands for our essential nature: we are ourselves an image ; and being an image is what is what really defines us. The experience of being oneself an image – or, as one might also say, (...) this basic understanding of oneself as being just an image – plays an important role inter alia in Pre-Platonic thought, in the corpus platonicum, in the Christian idea of the imago Dei and, not least, in Fichte’s late philosophy.This paper focuses on two ancient Greek forerunners of some aspects of Fichte’s understanding of image, namely pre-platonic and platonic views on our own being-just-an-image. (shrink)

Este estudo incide sobre o primeiro estásimo da Antígona de Sófocles e procura analisar o seu significado. A questão a que tenta responder é a seguinte: que imagem do ser humano se encontra expressa nesta ode coral? Tal questão encerra várias outras: 1) Em, que sentido se diz que o homem é algo δεινόν – e mesmo até o mais δεινόν de tudo? 2) Qual a relação entre esta característica e o ser auto-inventado ou auto-inventor de que falam as três (...) primeiras estâncias deste estásimo? 3) Que significa exactamente παντοπόρος? É este conceito decisivo para se entender o ser humano? 4) É o homem efectivamente παντοπόρος? 5) Por que razão os anciãos de Tebas sustentam que, ainda que o epíteto “assente como uma luva”, παντοπόρος está longe de ser a última palavra sobre o ser humano? (shrink)