This volume provides representative texts of transcendental idealism, including ones by J. G. Fichte (Some Lectures Concerning the Scholar's Vocation and A Crystal Clear Report Concerning the Actual Essence of the Newest Philosophy), E H. Jacobi ("Open Letter to Fichte" and "On Faith and Knowledge in Response to Schelling and Hegel"), F. W. J. Schelling (Ideas on a Philosophy of Nature, Deduction of a Universal Organ of Philosophy, and Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Freedom), and an anonymous text ("The Oldest Systematic Program of German Idealism") variously attributed to Hegel or Schelling.
