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The paper aims to discuss some elements of Fichte´s confrontation with the rational realism of Reinhold and Bardili, developed in the Grundriss der ersten Logik (1800) and in the Beyträge of 1801-1803, which allows to clarify the evolution of the Fichtean thought in relation to the primacy of the practical, affirmed throughout his doctrine of science. Based on a reconstruction of the critiques to the Wissenschaftslehre developed by Bardili and Reinhold in 1801 (§§ 2-3), the article focuses on the concepts of faith and of Trieb im Sein (§§ 4-5), developed in the expositions of the Wissenschaftslehre of 1804, 1805 and 1807. In doing this, the paper points out the similarities between the Fichtean perspective and the rational realism already sought by Reinhold in a letter of 1804.

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