Philosopher · Age of revolutions and empire · Germany
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
1762–1814
German thinker who turned Kant's philosophy into German idealism, making the absolute ego the source of all reality. His Addresses to the German Nation preached national resistance to Napoleon. He lived 1762 to 1814.
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- Born
- 1762, Rammenau, Saxony, Germany.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Died
- 1814, Berlin, of typhus.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- School
- German idealism.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Known for
- The Wissenschaftslehre, the science of knowledge, and the Addresses to the German Nation of 1808.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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