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John Dunn
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John Dunn original writing
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Humanity’s moral destiny
The vocation of man for Fichte was a moral one, which meant to transform nature and bring it into accord with his ideals. The world existed so that man could express those ideals and bring a moral order into being. Even so, to act upon the world was more than a moral purpose for Fichte, it was by definition what it meant to be human at all, even divine. He sometimes referred to the concept of the Absolute I as God and at other times as pure rational and spontaneous activity. From this standpoint, to hold to a Spinozist passivity was to expunge the Absolute I and bring about the death of the incarnated God. The preservation of humanity’s moral destiny against the threat of deterministic genocide was therefore the duty of everyone who considered himself fully human. Failure to inculcate the benefits of an actively moral culture into each member of society served not only to dehumanise those individuals, but also to endanger the human race as a whole. This destruction of man was the fear that Fichte expressed in The Vocation of the Scholar.
From Child of Encounter
© John Dunn.
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From the archive:
Birth of the “I”
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Nature: a beautiful virus
Swinburne presents life as a violent symphony of meeting and killing, encounter and destruction of equilibria. Nature, chaos, is a virus.
John Dunn
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Just a thought:
The necessary coalescence of order out of chaos began in France. Louis XI tackled one element of the tripartite Guelphic alliance, the nobility, in an effort to break the grip of profiteering, usury and financial speculation that epitomised the era of ultra-feudalism. John Dunn (Renaissance: Counter-Renaissance)
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The Oxford to Cambridge Arc 4
Further additions to the project, starting with the Newport Pagnell to Bedford leg of Ogilby's Oxford to Cambridge route.
John Dunn
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