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Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte · 1762–1814

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“Fichte deleted Kant's unknowable "thing-in-itself" and rebuilt philosophy from a single starting point — the free, self-creating I — making freedom go all the way down.”
— The Great Philosophers, Ch. 162

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“The self is not a thing you have but an act you perform — and the whole world is best understood as the arena that free, striving selves need in order to act at all.”
— The Great Philosophers, Ch. 162

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