39 Facts About Johann Fichte

Johann Gottlieb Fichte was a German philosopher who became a founding figure of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, which developed from the theoretical and ethical writings of Immanuel Kant.

Johann Fichte was the originator of thesis–antithesis–synthesis, an idea that is often erroneously attributed to Hegel.

Johann Fichte wrote works of political philosophy; he has a reputation as one of the fathers of German nationalism.

Johann Fichte showed remarkable ability from an early age, and it was owing to his reputation among the villagers that he gained the opportunity for a better education than he otherwise would have received.

Johann Fichte was informed that a lad in the neighborhood would be able to repeat the sermon almost verbatim.

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Johann Fichte was placed in the family of Pastor Krebel at Niederau near Meissen, and there received a thorough grounding in the classics.

In 1780, Johann Fichte began study at the University of Jena's Lutheran theology seminary.

Johann Fichte was transferred a year later to study at the Leipzig University.

Johann Fichte seems to have supported himself during this period of bitter poverty and hard struggle.

Freiherr von Militz continued to support him, but when he died in 1784, Johann Fichte had to end his studies without completing his degree.

From 1784 to 1788, Johann Fichte precariously supported himself as tutor for various Saxon families.

Johann Fichte lived in Zurich for the next two years, which was a time of great contentment for him.

Johann Fichte began to study the works of Kant in the summer of 1790.

However, while Johann Fichte was studying Kantian philosophy, the Rahn family suffered financial reverses.

Johann Fichte excelled as a lecturer due to the earnestness and force of his personality.

Johann Fichte gave himself up to intense production, and a succession of works soon appeared.

Johann Fichte had been accused of this in 1798 after publishing the essay "Ueber den Grund unsers Glaubens an eine gottliche Weltregierung", written in response to Friedrich Karl Forberg's essay "Development of the Concept of Religion", in his Philosophical Journal.

At first Johann Fichte was a warm admirer of Fessler, and was disposed to aid him in his proposed Masonic reform.

Johann Fichte presented two lectures on the philosophy of Masonry during the same period as part of his work on the development of various higher degrees for the lodge in Berlin.

Johann Fichte wrote On Machiavelli, as an Author, and Passages from His Writings in June 1807.

Johann Fichte became a professor at the new University of Berlin, founded in 1810.

Johann Fichte's wife devoted herself to nursing and caught a virulent fever.

Johann Fichte's critics argued that his mimicry of Kant's difficult style produced works that were barely intelligible.

Johann Fichte did not endorse Kant's argument for the existence of noumena, of "things in themselves", the supra-sensible reality beyond direct human perception.

Johann Fichte saw the rigorous and systematic separation of "things in themselves" and things "as they appear to us" as an invitation to skepticism.

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Rather than invite skepticism, Johann Fichte made the radical suggestion that we should throw out the notion of a noumenal world and accept that consciousness does not have a grounding in a so-called "real world".

Johann Fichte achieved fame for originating the argument that consciousness is not grounded in anything outside of itself.

In Foundations of Natural Right, Johann Fichte argued that self-consciousness was a social phenomenon — an important step and perhaps the first clear step taken in this direction by modern philosophy.

Rather than claim that the not-I is the cause or ground of the Anstoss, Johann Fichte argues that not-I is posited by the I in order to explain to itself the Anstoss in order to become conscious of Anstoss.

Dieter Henrich proposed that Johann Fichte was able to move beyond a "reflective theory of consciousness".

Between December 1807 and March 1808, Johann Fichte gave a series of lectures concerning the "German nation" and its culture and language, projecting the kind of national education he hoped would raise it from the humiliation of its defeat at the hands of the French.

Johann Fichte came to believe Germany would be responsible to carry the virtues of the French Revolution into the future.

Fichte built upon earlier ideas of Johann Gottfried Herder and attempted to unite them with his approach.

However, attached to the letter is a footnote in which Johann Fichte provides an impassioned plea for permitting Jews to practice their religion without hindrance.

Johann Fichte argued for government regulation of industrial growth, writing "Only by limitation does a certain industry become the property of the class that deals with it".

Johann Fichte gave a wide range of public and private lectures in Berlin from the last decade of his life.

Johann Fichte was made its rector and the first Chair of Philosophy.

Johann Fichte's son published some of these thirty years after his death.

Johann Fichte's works are quoted and cited from GA, followed by a combination of Roman and Arabic numbers, indicating the series and volume, respectively, and the page number.