Etudes Germaniques - N1/2015: Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

Pierre Jean BRUNEL : Oti et dioti. Les enjeux métaphysiques de l'éthique aristotélicienne dans Woldemar de Friedrich Heinrich JacobiWhile Aristotle's authority is being challenged by modern philosophy, Jacobi quotes from his Nicomachean Ethics in Woldemar. Daniel Jenisch's edition of the Aristotle Ethics proves to be a major source for the understanding of the novel's « philosophical intent ». What is the significance of such a philosophical revival of Aristotle as the result of the novel?? To what extent does the variance between the « commercial society » and the ancient doctrine of virtue throw light upon ethical and metaphysical stakes?? How does the novel handle the philosophical question of immediate knowledge?? The reading of Nicomachean Ethics does provide us with a model of conversion for the crisis of the modern subject.Während die Autorität des Aristoteles von der modernen Philosophie in Frage gestellt wird, bezieht sich Jacobi in Woldemar auf die Nikomachische Ethik. Daniel