This portion of the text builds on the earlier reading when he writes about ethics. He writes that there must be a higher morality simply because we have a sense of it. "I will obey it simply because it commands"(92). Which I take with a bit of caution because sometimes this inner voice which he claims should be obeyed may suggest or command an action which would be morally questionable from other people's perspectives. If in your anger you believe this voice is commanding you to commit an act of violence should this be obeyed "simply because it commands" (92)?
To build off this idea of a objective moral base is the argument that heaven must exist becuase the actions the serve doesn't necessarily serve this natural world. "Evidently it does not serve the purpose of the3 natural earthly world. There must, therefore, be a supernatural world whose prupose it serves"(93). This is an interesting way of viewing the infinite; with the existance being proved by the moral law. Usually its the opposite, the moral law being claimed because of the infinite.
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In this section of Fichte and his ideas on faith, I found it interesting that he accpets the fact that there may be a life after the one we live now. It makes sense when he says there has to be an afterllife because all of the knowledge we obtain here on earth has to amount to something, it cant be for nothing. I have thought about this idea before and I understand why he would take such an stance on what happens to us when we die.
ReplyDeletePeople need to have something to grapse onto when death approaches because it brings a sense of peace to our being when we ultimately have to face death. I do however wish that he would take a different outlook for the people that simply dont believe in anything, and that this world is all we have. If you take that approach it is much harder to understand our purpose and it may also cause some anxious feelings towards death because it would mean it was all for nothing.
In his writings, I think Fichte has quite a frw assumptions of what might happen and I find him stating that something must be for something else, which doesnt really tell me anything except that he has certain feelings about things that can be controversial in the argument of the supernatural world and the world we live in today.