[lit-ideas] Re: The hilarity of Fichte
- From: Michael Chase <goya@xxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 10:52:08 +0200
Le 3 oct. 04, =E0 05:43, Erin Holder a =E9crit :
> It gets better!
>
> The Wissenschaftslehre is itself a science. Thus it too must begin=20
> with one
> first principle - a first principle that cannot be proven within the
> Wissenschaftslehre, but has to be presupposed for this to be possible=20=
> as a
> science. But neither can this first principle be proven within any=20
> higher
> science. For in that case this higher science would itself be the
> Wissenschaftslehre, and the science whose first principle first had to=20=
> be
> demonstrated would not be the Wissenschaftslehre. Consequently, this=20=
> first
> principle, the first principle of the Wissenschaftslehre, and through=20=
> it the
> first principle of all science and knowledge, simply cannot be proven.
> (I,48)
>
> That one's a gem, too.
M.C. Am I the only one here who doesn't understand what's funny about=20
this?
>
>
Michael Chase
(goya@xxxxxxxxxxx)
CNRS UPR 76
7, rue Guy Moquet
Villejuif 94801
France
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