Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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Fichte · Fichte I
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History of Modern Philosophy from Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time
Major German idealist philosopher known for the Science of Knowledge; subject of Chapter X.
Even that most narrow tendency of the early philosophy of the modern period, the apotheosis of cognition is,--in spite of the moralistic counter-movement of Kant and Fichte,--the controlling motive in the last of the great idealistic systems, while it also continues to exercise a marvelously powerful influence on the convictions of our Hegel-weary age, alike within the sphere of philosophy and (st …
The aesthetic view of the world held by the Greeks, the transcendental-religious view of Christianity, the intellectual view of Leibnitz and Hegel, the panthelistic views of Fichte I and Schopenhauer are vital forces, not doctrines, postulates, not results of thought.
The fact that the modern period can show no one philosophic writer of the literary rank of Plato, even though it includes such masters of style as Fichte, Schelling, Schopenhauer, and Lotze, not to speak of lesser names, is an external proof of how noticeably the aesthetic impulse has given way to one purely intellectual.