Günter Zöller, Fichte's Transcendental Philosophy: The Original Duplicity of Intelligence and Will. Cambridge University Press, 1998. xvii + 169 pp.

An interpretation of Fichte's doctrine of the unity of thinking and willing, as found in his system of philosophy known as the Wissenschaftslehre.

The contents are as follows:

Introduction

Part I, Thinking about Thinking

  1. Completing Kant's Transcendental Idealism
    1. The Systematic Significance of Transcendental Idealism in Kant
    2. The Wissenschaftslehre as System of Transcendental Idealism
    3. The Metacritique of Transcendental Idealism
  2. An Eye for an I
    1. Philosophy as Wissenschaftslehre
    2. The Wissenschaftslehre as Idealism
    3. The Method of the Wissenschaftslehre
    4. The Experiment of the Wissenschaftslehre
    5. Assessing the Project of the Wissenschaftslehre

Part II, Knowing and Doing

  1. Positing and Determining
    1. Absolute Positing
    2. From Positing to Determining
    3. Theoretical Determining
    4. Practical Determining and Predicative Positing
  2. Changing the Appearances
    1. The System of Ethics in the System of the Wissenschaftslehre
    2. The Moral Principle of Subjectivity
    3. A Transcendental Theory of Action

Part III, Thinking and Willing

  1. Willing as Thinking
    1. An Integrated Theory of Reason
    2. Freedom and the Laws of Thinking
    3. Thinking and Intuiting
    4. Intelligence and Practical Faculty
    5. Thinking and Willing
    6. Pure Willing and Thinking
  2. Ideal Thinking and Real Thinking
    1. The Ideality of Philosophy
    2. Ideal and Real Activity
    3. Ideal and Real Thinking
    4. Thinking and the Real

Part IV, Pure Willing

  1. Determination to Self-determination
    1. The Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation
    2. The System of Ethics
    3. The Wissenschaftslehre Nova Methodo
  2. The Unity of Intelligence and Will
    1. Transcendental Noumenalism
    2. Synthetic Thinking and the Pure Will
    3. Faith as the Unity of Intelligence and Will
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