Johann Gottlieb Fichte (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, 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 is thought of by some as the father of German nationalism. (via Wikipedia)

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About Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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Place of Death: Berlin, Germany

Region: Western Philosophy

Name: Fichte, Johann Gottlieb
Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Influenced: Hegel, Schopenhauer, Schelling, Novalis, Dieter Henrich, Rudolf Steiner, Thomas Carlyle

Birthplace: Rammenau, Saxony

Period: 18th-century philosophy

Known for: absolute consciousness, thesis-antithesis-synthesis, the not-I, striving, mutual recognition

School/Tradition: German Idealism, Neo-Kantianism, Post-Kantianism

Birth Date: May 19, 1762

Influenced By: Immanuel Kant, Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Salomon Maimon

Death Date: Jan 27, 1814

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