Ok.... Mr. Kant said in "The Critique Of The Pure Reason" in a few words; there's Empirical Knowledge which we get from experience and there's also Pure knowledge; which has nothing to do with experience.
Kant is saying that Empirical Knowledge is a compound of experience and impression; this is all A Posteriori.
Then there's the case when knowledge is A Priori meaning before any experience at all. Then there's Pure and Impure A Priori. The Pure being the one that has no elements of experience whatsoever, none at all.
Then what Mr. Fichte says is that there's only Knowledge A Priori. Fichte totally rejects Realism, and for him, there's only one way, namely, Idealism.
Now, if you look closely at these two philosophical theories, you will see a very interesting difference of opinions based on religion and psychology....I think, both, Kant and Fichte, needed a shrink badly...!0!
Idealism says physical objects are ideas that exist only as they are perceived by human minds or by the mind of God as opossed to Realism; which says that the existence of everything does not depend on the awareness of it.
If a tree falls but there's nobody there to listen, will it make any sound?
2007-02-11 03:43:34
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answered by Alex 5
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Some. Reviewed after your question. It's unfortunate his philosophical work got sidelined by Kant on one side and Hegel on the other, particularly the political philosophy he explored.
2007-02-11 01:59:11
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answered by mckenziecalhoun 7
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