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John Dunn original writing
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Creative imagination once more
F. H. Jacobi (1743-1819), an obsessive Spinozist, saw in Spinoza’s ‘novel conception of God, the way toward a new religion or religiousness which was to inspire a wholly new kind of society, a new kind of church’. Jacobi was blinded to an appreciation of the significance of Fichte’s inversion of Spinoza, and yet his criticism of Fichte was unknowingly astute. He claimed that Fichte’s position was nothing more than an inverted Spinozism, and that the concept of the Absolute I played the same role in Fichte’s system as the concept of Substance played in Spinoza’s. What Jacobi failed to appreciate was that whereas Spinozism starts and finishes in materialism, Fichte’s system starts and finishes with thought. The inversion changed everything. With Fichte, we pass from passivity to activity, from slave to ruler. Fichte pitted man as creator, doer and producer against Spinozist determinism, necessitarianism and fatalism. Humanness and the imagination became one. The creative imagination once more became the defining factor of the whole human enterprise.
From Child of Encounter
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From the archive:
Real bifurcation
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About encounter
...a gentle breeze ripples the veil of Sais.
John Dunn
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Just a thought:
Before the concept of a nation state under a monarch, of the type posited by Dante, Nicholas of Cusa and Plethon, there could only be fragmentation. John Dunn (Renaissance: Counter-Renaissance)
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The Oxford to Cambridge Arc 3
Further additions to the project, starting with the Buckingham to Newport Pagnell leg of Ogilby's 1675 Oxford to Cambridge route.
John Dunn
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