ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the deduction of the concept of right in J. G. Fichte’s Grundlage des Naturrechts, or the Foundations of Natural Right, with the aim of clarifying the relation between morality, right, and philosophy in the Jena Wissenschaftslehre. It reviews Fichte’s account of individuality, intersubjectivity, and summoning in the Wissenschaftslehre nova methodo, or the Foundations of Transcendental Philosophy nova methodo, and the Foundations of Natural Right. The chapter considers Fichte’s description of the relation between morality, right, and philosophy in the “Deduction of the Subdivisions of the Wissenschaftslehre” and the Foundations of Natural Right. It explains how the rule of right functions as a hypothetical imperative in the Foundations of Natural Right. In the “Deduction of the Subdivisions of the Wissenschaftslehre,” Fichte claims that “simply by means of analysis, one must be able to proceed from the Foundations to every particular science.
