Can Fichte's philosophy be transformative? A dislocated commentary on the Doctrine of Science and indian philosophy.

Abstract

The present article offers a commentary on *Transformative Philosophy: A Study of Sankara, Fichte, and Heidegger*, a pioneering comparative study by John Taber, published in 1983 by the University of Hawaii. A careful reading of Taber’s text simultaneously reveals a fine example of comparative philosophy in practice, presents an interesting and unorthodox interpretation of Fichte’s concept of intellectual intuition, and, above all, posits the idea of a transformative philosophy or a philosophical transformation in the strong sense of the term. The discussion is divided into three stages: first, I describe Taber’s reading of Shankara’s thesis, then, in the second part of the text, I examine how this thesis reappears, *mutatis mutandis*, in the principle of the *Science of Knowledge*. The third and final part of the article briefly develops an essay on how this proposal could be understood within the broader scope of Fichte’s work.