The instruction to the blessed life or also the religious doctrine

The instruction for a blessed life or also the religious doctrine (EA Berlin 1806) is a religious-philosophical treatise by the philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte . It is based on eleven lectures that Fichte gave that year. In these lectures he tried to make the central statements of his science teaching accessible to a wider audience and to encourage them to put into practice.

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In the instruction for a blessed life , Fichte explains how a person finds himself in three stages of development:

In the first phase of development the human being as the finite I stands on the egoistic standpoint of sensual bliss ; his will is not one with the divine will, but in opposition to it. In the second phase he reaches a point where he is asked to choose between his own will or the divine will (standpoint of the law ). In the third he appropriates the law voluntarily, with which all opposition between man and God ceases, pure and free morality, the state of bliss begins, “man sinks into God” and “ God is all in all ”.

It is very important to Fichte that his teaching is in harmony with the teaching of “genuine Christianity” as he v. a. believes to recognize in the Gospel of John . Such a demonstration takes place in the 6th lecture.

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Volume 5, pp. 397-580 of the complete edition of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Edited by Reinhard Lauth , Erich Fuchs and Hans Gliwitzky, Stuttgart - Bad Cannstatt 1962 ff. ISBN 3-7728-0138-2 .
Volume 2, pp. 329-538 of the works in 2 volumes. Edited by Wilhelm G. Jacobs , Peter L. Oesterreich , Frankfurt a. M. 1997. ISBN 3-6186-3073-5
The instruction to the blessed life or also the religious doctrine. With an introduction by Hansjürgen Verweyen , Hamburg 2001 ⁵ . ISBN 3-7873-1574-8 .

Studies

Björn Pecina, Fichtes Gott. From the sense of freedom to the love of being , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-16-149014-9
Frédéric Seyler, Fichte's “Instructions for a Blessed Life”. A commentary on religious teaching from 1806 , Verlag Alber, Freiburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-495-48642-9

Web links

The instruction to the blessed life or the religious teaching at Zeno.org .