Johann Gottlieb Fichte[a] (19 May 1762 – 29 January 1814) was a German philosopher who became a founding figure of German idealism, which developed from the theoretical and ethical writings of Immanuel Kant.
Inspired by his reading of Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814) developed during the final decade of the eighteenth century a radically revised and rigorously systematic version of transcendental idealism, which he called Wissenschaftslehre (“Doctrine of Scientific Knowledge”). Perhaps the most characteristic, as well as most controversial, feature of the Wissenschaftslehre (at least ...
Johann Gottlieb Fichte (born , Rammenau, Upper Lusatia, Saxony [now in Germany]—died Jan. 27, 1814, Berlin) was a German philosopher and patriot, one of the great transcendental idealists.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762—1814) Johann Gottlieb Fichte is one of the major figures in German philosophy in the period between Kant and Hegel. Initially considered one of Kant’s most talented followers, Fichte developed his own system of transcendental philosophy, the so-called Wissenschaftslehre. Through technical philosophical works and popular writings Fichte exercised great influence ...
Johann Gottlieb Fichte was a key figure of German Idealism. His philosophical works on subjectivity and consciousness took Kantianism in a new direction and influenced the works of Schelling, Hegel, and Schopenhauer, among others. Although the genius of his original contributions was celebrated, it has also stirred enormous controversy in Germany during the 18th century. Early Life and ...
Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814) is widely regarded as one of the three central figures of classical German Idealism, alongside Schelling and Hegel. Working in the wake of Immanuel Kant, he developed a radically original form of transcendental idealism that places the self-positing I (Ich) at the basis of knowledge, reality, and morality.