The evolution of skepticism: Fichte

Johann Gottlieb Fichte(1762-1814) is the author of the Doctrine of the science, that has took certainly from the skepticism, precisely from the Pirronian sketches of Sextus Empiricus, that explained the method of skepticism, and in the first chapter of this book he has written: “The skepticism explains the his valor for to contrast the phenomena and the intellectuals perceptions to every manner, hence, for the equal force of the reality and of the contrast reasons, we come foremost to suspension of the judge…The contrasting reasons we not interpret the contrast reasons, we not think absolutely, the affirmation or negation, but alone the reasons that are fighting one other. Through the equal force, we think the equality regard the credibility and to not credibility, so that nothing has preferred than other. Suspension of the judge is a behavior of the head, and for this we not refuse and accept it”; these considerations that we have read from Sextus Empiricus, and that explain the doctrine of the skepticism, are also necessary for to consider the Fichte’s dialectic, that apparently has nothing tide, but we must consider attentively the Doctrine the science of Fichte, where he explained his theory of his the dialectic, that after is going to be the same of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel(1770-1831), but for Fichte the evolution from the skepticism is evident, why? Simple because for Fichte are two the principles, I and not I, that are the direct translation of two principles of Fichte, this is the I and not I, that are contrasting between them, as the contrasting are the theory on Sextus Empiricus suspends the judge, instead Fichte, this is the evolution, theorized the fusion, that is different certainly as every evolution, that modify the shape and theory…The fundamental principle of the skepticism is, above all, this: to every reason is opposite a of same valor. Through it we not set some dogma.”; the evolution of Fichte occurred, above all because the times are changed, also for the certain of the his dialectic, that is explain form him as the certain thing, and also it is an evolution, because Sextus Empiricus regard the skeptical philosopher says: “We can say that the skeptic not dogmatize, not for the sense that somebody has took this word, because for them to assert to something…So for example, if he (the skeptical philosopher) feeling the warm or cold, he not would says: I think not feeling the warm or cold; but we can think that he not dogmatize, for the sense that other give to word, this is dogma, this is to assent for something that are obscure and that are object of search. But neither dogmatize for to say regard the obscure things, the skeptical expressions not at all anymore or I not establish something. Who dogmatize set as true and real the his judge, instead the skepticism set these expressions not as true and real absolutely…”; it is the judge regard the truth that Sextus has heard for his times, and Fichte instead has dogmatize his theory, but I repeat, the time were different, and the philosophical affirmations, during the 19^th century, have to be sustained because the skepticism would has been very harmful for a philosophical theory; anyway Fichte has took from the skepticism something and after he has changed in conformity for his time.

Alessandro Lusana