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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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El estado natural del hombre es el Estado

Mariano Gaudio

pp. n/a

Abstract

In Fichte’s GNR various concepts of iusnaturalism appear (natural rights, pact, State); but, what do those concepts mean? A first problem of interpretation is synthetic method, according to which each element must be understood in relation to the other elements, and must also in the whole of their relations (I). The original right (II) and right to coercion (III), which would be equivalent to natural condition, are not the ground of State, but presentation of irresolvable conflict which shows the need to generate the State. Fichte says: “the State itself becomes the natural state of man”, because the natural condition is a fiction to be conceptualized in the rational State. Those rights can’t subsist out of the State. As a unity of multiple subjects, the State does not arise from the conjunction or concordance among themselves, but the unity is previous, because it identifies the multiple subjects in a common desire (IV). At this point Fichte has to explain how the totality is generated, that it isn’t a whole, i.e., the communitarian organicism of common will as shown in the State (V). This equalitarian organicism is based on the fact that each particular subject can live off his labor (VI). Therefore, Fichte’s State consideres the field of trade relations as his own (VII), and this conception does not fall into liberalism or into authoritarianism.

Publication details

Published in:

(2010) Verano/Verão 2010. Revista de estud(i)os sobre Fichte 1.

Full citation:

Gaudio Mariano (2010) „El estado natural del hombre es el Estado“. Revista de estud(i)os sobre Fichte 1, n/a.