Fichte
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Standing at the front of an overcrowded auditorium in the late 18th century, the Romantic philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte would tell his students to look within.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2022
The philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte emphasized the Ich, or the I, as “the source of all reality.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2022
Young German provincials such as the philosophers Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Johann Gottfried von Herder—the fathers, respectively, of economic and cultural nationalism—simmered with resentment toward cosmopolitan universalists.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 25, 2016
In The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy From Kant to Fichte, the historian Frederick C. Beiser describes the Illuminati as “a secret society devoted to the cause of political reform and Aufklärung”— the German Enlightenment.
From Slate ● Nov. 21, 2011
In the fulness of his powers, ripe in ability and in fame, he sat in the chair that Fichte had occupied, and gave laws to the intellectual world.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
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