Johann Gottlieb Fichte

The great 18th-century German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte (Google him) saw ahead to the moment all information would be available to everyone when he wrote: "When every useful discovery made at one end of the earth shall be at once made known to all the rest, then, without further interruption, without halt or regress, humanity shall move forward to a higher culture of which we can at present form no conception."

Johann Hari: Has The Internet Brought Us Together -- Or Pulled Us Apart? 2009

One of the early theorists of German nationalism, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, was a raving anti-Semite who saw European Jews as a “state within a state” who would rightly be denied citizenship in the German nation-state he advocated creating.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Against Nationalism 2009

This phenomenon was already familiar and the author referred to it scornfully as being completely contrary to nature: “A woman who speaks and argues about abstract [philosophical] matters such as space and time, idealism and realism, or expresses an opinion about Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762 – 1814) or Friedrich Schelling (1775 – 1854), sounds utterly ridiculous.”

Haskalah Attitudes Toward Women. 2009

Schopenhauer next enrolled at the University of Berlin (1811-13), where his lecturers included Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814) and Friedrich Schleiermacher

Arthur Schopenhauer Wicks, Robert 2007

Letters on Aesthetic Education in 1795, both Romanticism and Absolute Idealism emerged, the former in works by Friedrich von Hardenburg (“Novalis”) and Friedrich Schlegel, the latter in works by Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling.

18th Century German Aesthetics Guyer, Paul 2007

Johann Gottlieb Fichte was, as noted, for a time a member of the group surrounding Schlegel in Jena.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas JAMES GUTMANN 1968

Johann Gottlieb Fichte was born at Rammenau in 1762.

An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant Edward Caldwell Moore 1900

The solution for this type of problem can be found in the work of Johann Gottlieb Fichte (often wrongly ascribed to Hegel).

BioMed Central - Latest articles 2010

In 1793, the philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte, who professed to be advocating that Jews be given "human rights," put the choice before them in starkly brutal terms: "As for giving them [the Jews] civil rights, I see no remedy [* 72] but that their heads should be cut off in one night and replaced with others not containing a single Jewish idea."

The Moderate Voice 2009

The great 18th-century German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte (Google him) saw ahead to the moment all information would be available to everyone when he wrote: "When every useful discovery made at one end of the earth shall be at once made known to all the rest, then, without further interruption, without halt or regress, humanity shall move forward to a higher culture of which we can at present form no conception."

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009