FRIES, Jacob Friedrich.

Wissen, Glaube und Ahndung (Knowing, Faith and Presentiment).

Jena: J. C. G. Göpfrdt, 1805. FIRST EDITION TP + [I]-XII = Vorrede + [XIII]-[XIV] = Inhaltanzeige +half title + [3]-327 + [329]-[335] = Index, small Octavo. First Edition. Fries was Hegel's great academic competitor and enemy throughout their lives and "there was certainly no love lost between [them]; both Fries's comments about Hegel in his letters to friends and Hegel's comments on Fries are equally nasty… Fries was an outspoken public and private critic of the whole line of thought that ran from Fichte to Schelling, [and he] did little to conceal his opinion that the whole movement - especially that represented by Schelling - was not just mistaken but was outright patent nonsense. [He] was professionally at first more successful than Hegel." ((Pinkard, Hegel, p. 221). The book is the first work published by Fries after his appointment as professor in philosophy and mathematics in Heidelberg - a post that Hegel himself had coveted at the time but did not get. The book was "a popular exposition of his doctrine of a three-fold approach to reality… Fries followed Kant in the over-all architectonic of his philosophy and in specific doctrines. Corresponding to Kant's three Critiques, he distinguished three approaches or attitudes toward reality - knowing, faith and presage, or presentiment. We know things only as appearance to a peculiarly human sensibility and understanding. But we have faith in the reality of the world of real moral agents under eternal moral laws. Our understanding is aware of this world only negatively, as a limitation of the empirical world, through the Ideas of Reason. Finally, through presage or presentiment, a pure and disinterested feeling akin to the experience of the beautiful and the sublime, we are given the assurance that the world of appearances and the real world are not two worlds but one, and that the former is a manifestation of the latter - a finite projection of the infinite into the finite." (EP, Vol. III, p. 253) Contemporary marbled boards and spine with gilt ornaments and gilt title. Spine edges worn as are the head and toe of spine. Former owner's bookplate to inside front cover. A lovely copy. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.

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