ABSTRACT
The Naturrecht is the work in which both the body and the other first receive systematic philosophical attention – not only in J. G. Fichte but in philosophy in general. For Fichte the problem is not the relation between distinct entities but the generation of the relata. Fichte’s theory of the body in the Naturrecht forms an essential part of his overall project of deducing the concept of right as a necessary condition of self-consciousness in the foundational chapters of that work. Fichte illustrates the transcendental account of perception by detailing how hearing involves the internal imitation of what is heard through the lower, outward-directed sensory organ. The chapter seeks to supplement the foundational, transcendental line of the reception of Fichte’s Naturrecht by focusing on the later sections of the general, transcendental part of the work. In Fichte’s understanding, the problem of the connection between the soul and the body is a pseudo problem.
