Rivelazione e vita. Motivi fichtiani nella filosofia della religione di Solger

The essay intends to inquire into Solger’s philosophy of religion in the light of the creative turn he makes towards some contents that are present in the thought of the “middle” Fichte. To this aim, the author shows analogies and differences between, above all, Fichte’s Anweisung and Solger’s writings after Erwin. The analogies refer in particular to the configuration of the relation between religion and philosophy, according to a model of reciprocal complementarity, and to the analysis of the nexus between the life (of the being) and its revelation (in the finite) according to a transcendental prospect. The differences are to be found first of all in the fact that, while in Fichte the rejoining with the absolute seems to come to fulfilment through a free act of kenotic nullifying that the I makes, in Solger the kenosis is a Christic act which continuously lives on in the man. For Fichte then the being reveals itself to us always and only in the image, while for Solger in the instant of the faith the finite self-consciousness identifies itself with God. In the end, while Fichte dwells on the moments (following St John) of the generation and the creation, Solger underlines more the moments (following St Paul) of the creation and the redemption, connoting Fichte’s dialectic between knowing and being in the light of the nexus between good and evil.