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Fichte

American  
[fikh-tuh] / ˈfɪx tə /

noun

  1. Johann Gottlieb 1762–1814, German philosopher.


Fichte British  
/ ˈfɪçtə /

noun

  1. Johann Gottlieb (joˈhan ˈɡɔtliːp). 1762–1814, German philosopher: expounded ethical idealism

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Standing at the front of an overcrowded auditorium in the late 18th century, the Romantic philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte would tell his students to look within.

From Washington Post • Sep. 22, 2022

The philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte emphasized the Ich, or the I, as “the source of all reality.”

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2022

Young German provincials such as the philosophers Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Johann Gottfried von Herder—the fathers, respectively, of economic and cultural nationalism—simmered with resentment toward cosmopolitan universalists.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 25, 2016

In The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy From Kant to Fichte, the historian Frederick C. Beiser describes the Illuminati as “a secret society devoted to the cause of political reform and Aufklärung”— the German Enlightenment.

From Slate • Nov. 21, 2011

It was an essay on the difference between the philosophic systems of Fichte and Schelling, tending in the main to support the latter.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various