Fichte's economic philosophy and the current debate concerning distributive justice

Merle, Jean C.

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Fichte's economic philosophy and the current debate concerning distributive justice

dc.contributor.author	Merle, Jean C.
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dc.date.issued	1994
dc.description.abstract	It is nevertheless true that Fichte is the first to have introduced the double synthesis I have emphasized, that is to say, the synthesis of right and progress and that of the individual and the cornrnunity. In this he was innovative both compared to the egalitarian currents of his period and in comparison with a long, later tradition. He dcfcnds an egalitarianism that neither rejects efficiency and progress nor, on the other hand, prívate property, the liberty of the individual and the differences demanded by progress. Nevertheless his philosophy still remains a path of originality for the contemporary approach of political philosophy. He does not aim at a fixed, final result but at equality at the outset and genuine competition, and thus he stands in opposition to Rawls, taking into account the criticisms of Sen. He thereby avoids the snags of the notion of the Welfare State and those of conservative liberalism. Lastly and above all, his is not a moral finality of the economy, perfect in the Rawlsian sense. Despite what seem to me to be the legitimate fears that The closed commercial state arouses, I rnaintain that Fichte corrected the direction of his thinking in The Doctrine of Right of 1812. He clearly expressed his devotion to what constitutes a sine qua non condition of our modernity, by which I do not only mean religious liberty and freedom of thought, but also the liberty of personal aims. Fichte, without renouncing the dirnension of religion and community, chose, in all clarity, a form of economic organization that was judicial and secularized.	es
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dc.identifier.citation	Daimon. Revista Internacional de Filosofía, 1994, N. 9, pp. 259-273
dc.identifier.issn	1989-4651
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/153533
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de Publicaciones	es
dc.relation	Sin financiación externa a la Universidad	es
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dc.subject.other	CDU::1 - Filosofía y psicología	es
dc.title	Fichte's economic philosophy and the current debate concerning distributive justice	es
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