[lit-ideas] Re: The hilarity of Fichte
- From: "Erin Holder" <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 23:00:10 -0400
No...?
Erin
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From: "Robert Paul" <Robert.Paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The hilarity of Fichte
> "But suppose that it could be shown that, in the wake of all previous
> experience, the field which remains available for scientific cultivation
is
> already occupied by the appropriate sciences and that there appears to be
> only one uncultivated plot remaining, namely, the one marked out for the
> science of science as such. An suppose, furthermore, that under a
familiar
> name ("philosophy") one discovers the idea of a science, that is, the idea
> of something which wishes to be or to become a science, but which cannot
> decide where it should take root. In this case it would not be improper
to
> direct it toward the empty plot we have discovered. It is immaterial
> whether or not people have always meant precisely this by the word
> "philosophy". Afterward, this science (if philosophy ever becomes a
> science) will be justified in casting off a few names which it has
> previously assume out of a (a by no means exaggerated) modesty: the names
> "esoteric amusement," "hobby,", and "diletantism." The nation [and this
is
> the best part] which discovered this science would deserve to give it a
name
> in its own language, in which case it could be called simply "science" or
> [...]"
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> Have you read Luck Jim?
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