Long 19th c. · 1762–1814
Who influenced Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
Influences and legacy
Radicalized Kant into a philosophy of the active self and the German nation.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte was influenced by Immanuel Kant, and went on to influence Friedrich Schlegel and F. W. J. Schelling. That is 3 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
Who was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
Johann Gottlieb Fichte was a founding figure of German idealism, the movement that grew out of Kant's theoretical and ethical writings. Like Descartes and Kant he started from the problem of subjectivity and consciousness, and his own account of self-consciousness is what makes him important in his own right.
The triad of thesis, antithesis and synthesis, often credited to Hegel, is his. He also wrote political philosophy, which has earned him a reputation as one of the fathers of German nationalism.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Immanuel Kant 1724–1804
Who did Johann Gottlieb Fichte influence?
2 thinkers on this map draw directly on Johann Gottlieb Fichte.
- Friedrich Schlegel 1772–1829
- F. W. J. Schelling 1775–1854
The line of teachers behind Johann Gottlieb Fichte
The longest documented line of influence ending at Johann Gottlieb Fichte runs 20 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
- Thales of Miletus
- Anaximenes of Miletus
- Anaxagoras
- Socrates
- Antisthenes
- Diogenes of Sinope
- Crates of Thebes
- Zeno of Citium
- Seneca
- Tertullian
- Augustine of Hippo
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Peter Lombard
- Thomas Aquinas
- René Descartes
- Thomas Hobbes
- Baruch Spinoza
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Christian Wolff
- Immanuel Kant
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Two steps away from Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Indirect influences
- Through Immanuel Kant: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Christian Wolff, David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The second generation
Contemporaries of Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, with no direct line between them.
- Mary Wollstonecraft 1759–1797
- Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767–1835
- Friedrich Schleiermacher 1768–1834
- Georg W. F. Hegel 1770–1831
- Jeremy Bentham 1748–1832
- Johann Friedrich Herbart 1776–1841
- Johann Gottfried Herder 1744–1803
- Bernard Bolzano 1781–1848
Johann Gottlieb Fichte by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 2
- Thinkers upstream
- 82
- Thinkers downstream
- 78
- Wikipedia languages
- 83 — #15 of 47 among 19th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Schools and lineages
- German idealists: Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, F. W. J. Schelling, Georg W. F. Hegel, Karl Marx
- German classical: Christian Wolff, Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, F. W. J. Schelling, Georg W. F. Hegel, Johann Gottfried Herder, Friedrich Schleiermacher
Questions about Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Who influenced Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
- Immanuel Kant.
- Who did Johann Gottlieb Fichte influence?
- Friedrich Schlegel and F. W. J. Schelling.
- When did Johann Gottlieb Fichte live?
- 1762–1814. The map files Johann Gottlieb Fichte under the long 19th century.
- How rare is the Johann Gottlieb Fichte card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Johann Gottlieb Fichte in 83 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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