Fichte on Pragmatism and Freedom

[@thattimestampguy]

0:01 The Mind has an incredible ability to Posit-Itself, Be Aware of Itself, Able To Think About Itself. *Action and Product, Act and Fact* 1:01 Self-Conciousness has a dual character. + An Activity of Reflecting + AND An Object of Reflection.3 2:12 An Action and A Product, an Act and a Fact! 2:38 (The Self is Aware to The Self Itself.) 3:08 "I can look inward." 3:22 Practical and Theoretical Reason. Pragmatism. 4:19 The Action and The Object. Consciousness Pre-Supposes Self-Consciousness. Built into The Nature of Consciousness itself. 4:53 Consciousness 5:13 The Fact and The Act are Identical! They are The Same Thing! 5:42 2 Separate aspects to The Same Activity. *Freedom* 6:04 We become aware of our freedom to act, in terms of our directing of our own consciousness. 6:43 Freedom to Direct My Mind as I Choose. 7:31 I direct my own mind to various things! 7:53 I have the freedom to direct My Own Mind to where I want. *Limitations* 8:15 But it is limited. Perceptions are limited to where you are. 8:46 There is a Not I. A 9:49 Freedom to Imagine Things, but Limitations of The Will's inability to actualize whatever The Freedom Images. *Self-Divided Against Itself.* 10:39 We tend to will what we desire, but we don't always have the capacity to do so. 11:33 We Are Essentially Free. 11:51 No Identity of The Kind Exhausts Who You Are. 12:14 You are more than what you imagine yourself to be.

[@KlPop-x1o]

Since 2017 I am constantly telling people what a gem Fichte really is. One of the most important philosophers ever.

[@moogzoliver]

Everyone should hear this at least once a cycle

[@HerrEinzige]

Fichte is excellent

[@Tm-kt3uw]

Professor Bonevac, I wanted to ask you a question about analytic:synthetic distinction, which you explained in one of your videos: are geometry theorems analytic or synthetic? Typically abstract representations of geometric figures are used to prove these theorems. But some axioms in geometry can’t be proved and were found empirically.

[@PhiloofAlexandria]

@@Tm-kt3uw Good question! There’s significant debate about this in the philosophy of mathematics, especially since the development of non-Euclidean geometries.

[@Tm-kt3uw]

@@PhiloofAlexandria Thank you!!! I’ll try to find more information about different points of view on this question.

[@MatthewMcRowan]

AI generated Sartre with fully functional eye makes me feel uneasy

[@mileskeller5244]

I'm still confused a bit on this.

[@kallianpublico7517]

Thinking is not consciousness. Thinking is self-consciousness. The self positing itself? Can self-consciousness posit consciousness? Can i posit Nature? No. The self seems stuck in between both consciousness and self consciousness. The i of self-consciousness is it the same i of consciousness. The i that experiences and interacts with Nature is different from the i that reflects and interacts with ... the experiencer of the experience of Nature. The experience, the experiencer and the experiencee. Me the tree and the sensations between us.