Abstract

This article aims to reconstruct the core thesis of Fichte’s theory of language, namely the antinomy of language. To answer the question, whether the language is the necessary condition of human being as rational entities, two approaches can be taken: the historical-empirical and the transcendental. The thesis asserts that language serves as the necessary mediation for thinking as well as freedom. Conversely, the antithesis highlights the limitations of the faculty of language and argues that the absence of language does not alter the fact of the genesis of consciousness. The following research will show that the thesis and the antithesis are not contradictory, but rather two different perspectives that can be brought together to complete Fichte's transcendental philosophy.