Fichte

American  

[fikh-tuh] / ˈfɪx tə /

noun

1. Johann Gottlieb 1762–1814, German philosopher.

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Fichte British  

/ ˈfɪçtə /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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.

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So began Fichte’s celebrated lectures on the meaning of freedom, drawing fascinated audiences that numbered in the hundreds.

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Fichte’s onetime disciple and soon-to-be bitter rival, Schelling taught by the light of two candles.

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She argues that the Romantics — including Goethe, Schiller and Hegel, as well as some lesser-known figures, such as the philosophers Fichte and Schelling, the critics Friedrich and August Wilhelm Schlegel, and the poet Novalis — handed down to us the modern notion of the self as essentially free.

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The book’s title adapts a phrase from a contemporary of Fichte, the critic Friedrich Schlegel — “magnificent outlaws” or “exiles” more literally — to describe this group of poets and philosophers who lived together in the aftermath of the French Revolution and who asked in their own ways what it means to be free.

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