Johann Gottlieb Fichte Philosopher

Johann Gottlieb Fichte (/ˈfɪxtə/; German: [ˈjoːhan ˈɡɔtliːp ˈfɪçtə]; May 19, 1762 – January 27, 1814) was a German philosopher. He was one of the founding figures of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, which 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 those of 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, he was motivated by the problem of subjectivity and consciousness. Fichte also wrote works of political philosophy and is considered one of the fathers of German nationalism.

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Birth date	May 19, 1762
Birth place	Saxony , Electorate of Saxony , Rammenau
Date of death	January 27, 1814
Place of death	Berlin , Germany , Kingdom of Prussia
Era	Age of Enlightenment
Main interest	Ethics Political philosophy Self-awareness Self-consciousness

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influenced	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Novalis Dieter Henrich
influenced by	Immanuel Kant Salomon Maimon
notable idea	Thesis antithesis synthesis Dieter Henrich Gnosology
philosophical school	Kantianism German Romanticism German idealism