person
also known as Fichte
German idealist, present in the series as one half of a contrast: his absolute is singular where Hegel's are plural, and it is the plurality that Cameron McEwen needs, since a single origin cannot account for genuinely different expressions. New to him — dialogue 65.
Across the dialogues
65
Enters as the singular absolute against which Hegel''s plural one is defined — the term that shows why only a plural genesis can yield plural expressions
The contrast is the session's philosophical test case — the same one it applies to the stem cell, which must be plural for the same reason.
"the absolute of Fichte is singular, but the absolutes of Hegel are plural."
His method described as reading a predecessor for what the predecessor did not say outright — which is precisely what Cameron and Bob are doing with McLuhan.
"Fichte... knew Kant and attempted to say that Kant's work inherently expressed this notion that he had of sort of the coalescence of consciousness."
Connections
contrasted withHegel
Fichte's absolute is singular where Hegel's are plural — the difference Cameron makes decisive.