GERMAN AND TEMPORALITY: THE WISSENSCHAFTSLEHRE IN FICHTE'S "ADDRESSES TO THE GERMAN NATION"

This essay aims to demonstrate how, in Addresses to the German Nation, the
Fichtean polemic against Dogmatismus is determined under the concept of temporality
and, in particular, within the dimension of the Geschichstphilosophie. As is known, the
entire Fichtean work (from the juvenile Revolutionsschriften up to the late Staatslehre,
printed in 1813) is dotted with stands against the dogmatic and fatalistic conceptions
of history, where the latter is reduced to an automatic process, independent from
human action. Fichte opposes these perspectives - in line with the principles of the WL
and the "system of liberty" - a conception of historicity as a non-deductible "series"
(Reihe) of human actions that articulate themselves over time. The Reden an die
deutsche Nation of 1808 will be the basis for an examination of the Fichtean
conception of temporality and, in particular, to see how the fight between WL and
Dogmatismus translates into a new form, that is, a stance against the circular
Zeitauffassung.