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Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Born

in Rammenau, Saxony, Germany

May 19, 1762

Died

January 27, 1814

Website

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Genre

Nonfiction, Philosophy

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte was a German philosopher. He was one of the founding figures of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, a movement that developed from the theoretical and ethical writings of Immanuel Kant. Fichte is often perceived as a figure whose philosophy forms a bridge between the ideas of Kant and the German Idealist Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Recently, philosophers and scholars have begun to appreciate Fichte as an important philosopher in his own right due to his original insights into the nature of self-consciousness or self-awareness. Like Descartes and Kant before him, the problem of subjectivity and consciousness motivated much of his philosophical rumination. Fichte also wrote political philosophy, and ...more

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	The Vocation of Man by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Peter Preuss (Translator) 3.49 avg rating — 388 ratings — published 1800 — 186 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Science of Knowledge: With the First and Second Introductions by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Peter Heath (Editor), John Lachs (Editor) 3.64 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 1794 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Addresses to the German Nation 3.26 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1808 — 167 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Introductions to the Wissenschaftslehre and Other Writings, 1797-00 by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Daniel Breazeale (Editor) 4.06 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Foundations of Natural Right by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Michael Baur (Translator), Frederick Neuhouser (Editor) 3.62 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1797 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fichte: The System of Ethics by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Daniel Breazeale (Editor), Guenter Zöller (Editor) 4.07 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1798 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Vocation of the Scholar by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, William Smith (Translator) 3.98 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1988 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Attempt at a Critique of all Revelation by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Garrett Green (Introduction) 3.67 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1792 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Early Philosophical Writings by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Daniel Breazeale (Translator) 4.21 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1993 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Foundations of Transcendental Philosophy (Wissenschaftslehre Nova Methodo) by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Daniel Breazeale (Translator) 4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1799 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“What sort of philosophy one chooses depends, therefore, on what sort of man one is; for a philosophical system is not a dead piece of furniture that we can accept or reject as we wish, it is rather a thing animated by the soul of the person who holds it.”
― Johann Fichte

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“A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.”
― Johann Gottlieb Fichte

tags: honor, liars, lies, lying, obligation, right-action

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“Men in the vehement pursuit of happiness grasp at the first object which offers to them any prospect of satisfaction, but immediately they turn an introspective eye and ask, ‘Am I happy?’ and at once from their innermost being a voice answers distinctly, ‘No, you are as poor and as miserable as before.' Then they think it was the object that deceived them and turn precipitately to another. But the second holds as little satisfaction as the first…Wandering then through life restless and tormented, at each successive station they think that happiness dwells at the next, but when they reach it happiness is no longer there. In whatever position they may find themselves there is always another one which they discern from afar, and which but to touch, they think, is to find the wished delight, but when the goal is reached discontent has followed on the way stands in haunting constancy before them.”
― Johann Gottlieb Fichte

tags: happiness, hedonism, misery, striving

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