Johann Gottlieb Fichte Quotes
We do not act because we know, but we know because we are called upon to act; the practical reason is the root of all reason.
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb. The Vocation of Man. Translated by William Smith, John Chapman, 1848, p. 116.
Later American politicians expounded the same view. See Otis Singletary {585931} and Eddie Bernice Johnson {605259}. The earliest expression of the idea can be found in the Bhagavad Gita {594723}
Benedict Spinoza, 1632-1677, was a Dutch Jewish Philosopher who developed the basics of modern scientific philosophy.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte 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. Fichte also wrote works of political philosophy; he has a reputation as one of the fathers of German nationalism.
