PHILOSOPHER

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

1762 - 1814

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte (; German: [ˈjoːhan ˈɡɔtliːp ˈfɪçtə]; 19 May 1762 – 29 January 1814) was a German philosopher who became a founding figure of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, which developed from the theoretical and ethical writings of Immanuel Kant. Recently, philosophers and scholars have begun to appreciate Fichte as an important philosopher in his own right due to his original insights into the nature of self-consciousness or self-awareness. Fichte was also the originator of thesis–antithesis–synthesis, an idea that is often erroneously attributed to Hegel. Like Descartes and Kant before him, Fichte was motivated by the problem of subjectivity and consciousness. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Gottlieb Fichte is the 64th most popular philosopher (up from 68th in 2019), the 71st most popular biography from Germany (down from 67th in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Philosopher.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte is most famous for his philosophy of transcendental idealism.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Johann Gottlieb Fichte ranks 64 out of 1,267. Before him are Karl Popper, Ramakrishna, Zeno of Elea, Zhuang Zhou, Epictetus, and Thomas More. After him are Zhu Xi, Antonio Gramsci, Zeno of Citium, Xenophanes, Gorgias, and Ibn Arabi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1762, Johann Gottlieb Fichte ranks 2. Before him is George IV of the United Kingdom. After him are Constanze Mozart, André Chénier, Pierre André Latreille, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria, Theroigne de Mericourt, Jacques Balmat, Gia Long, and Spencer Perceval. Among people deceased in 1814, Johann Gottlieb Fichte ranks 2. Before him is Joséphine de Beauharnais. After him are Marquis de Sade, Maria Carolina of Austria, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, Benjamin Thompson, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen, Marie-Louise O'Murphy, Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne, Arthur Phillip, and Louis-Sébastien Mercier.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Gottlieb Fichte ranks 71 out of 7,253. Before him are Heinrich Heine (1797), Erich Maria Remarque (1898), Konrad Adenauer (1876), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886), Reinhard Heydrich (1904), and Alexandra Feodorovna (1872). After him are Erich Fromm (1900), Ambrose (340), Albertus Magnus (1206), Karl Lagerfeld (1933), Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (1361), and Richard Strauss (1864).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Johann Gottlieb Fichte ranks 6. Before him are Friedrich Nietzsche (1844), Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770), Friedrich Engels (1820), Martin Heidegger (1889), and Hannah Arendt (1906). After him are Nicholas of Cusa (1401), Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775), Karl Jaspers (1883), Ludwig Feuerbach (1804), Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1846), and Jürgen Habermas (1929).

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