Fichte's System of Ethics

Stefano Bacin is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Milan. He is the author of Il senso dell'etica. Kant e la costruzione di una teoria morale (2006) and Fichte in Schulpforta (1774-1780) (2007). He is co-editor of a three-volume Kant-Lexikon (with Marcus Willaschek, Georg Mohr and Jürgen Stolzenberg, 2015) and The Emergence of Autonomy in Kant's Moral Philosophy (with Oliver Sensen, Cambridge, 2019). Owen Ware is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Kant's Justification of Ethics (forthcoming), and Fichte's Moral Philosophy (2020), and has written numerous articles on Fichte and Kant in journals such as the European Journal of Philosophy and Mind.

• Introduction Stefano Bacin and Owen Ware; 1. Fichte's Ethics as Kantian Ethics Allen W. Wood; 2. Fichte on Normativity in the Late Jena Period (1796–99) Benjamin Crowe; 3. Fichte on Autonomy Ulrich Schlösser; 4. Feeling, Drive, and the Lower Capacity of Desire Owen Ware; 5. Fichte and the Path from 'Formal' to 'Material' Freedom Daniel Breazeale; 6. Fichte on the Content of Conscience Dean Moyar; 7. Fichte's Theory of Moral Evil David James; 8. Embodiment and Freedom – Fichte 'On the Material of the Ethical Law' Angelica Nuzzo; 9. Ethics as Theory of Society: Morality and Ethical Life in Fichte's System of Ethics Luca Fonnesu; 10. My Duties and the Morality of Others: Lying, Truth, and the Good Example in Fichte's Normative Perfectionism Stefano Bacin.

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