Examples of using Fichte in English and their translations into Hebrew
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Hegel Fichte.
No one really understands anything about Fichte.
Hegel Fichte.
In a certain other way, directed more to the earthly sphere,I have to say the same of Hegel, Fichte or Schelling.
I have often pointed out that Fichte rightly said, most human beings would sooner regard themselves as a piece of lava on the moon, than as an“I.”.
It is a lie when people quote Fichte today.
One even comes to something like Fichte says:“The external sense world has no existence of its own; it is only the visible substance of my duty.”.
The thoughts in Vienna and in Berlin are not the thoughts that arose from the folk spirit andthen culminated in Fichte or Hegel.
Indeed, long after Fichte had died, decades later, people who had heard him in Jena still spoke of the great influence he had upon their soul life.
In the period 1795- 1796,Novalis concerned himself with the scientific doctrine of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, which greatly influenced his worldview.
When people talk about Johann Gottlieb Fichte today, when they write books about him and mention him in newspaper articles, they only perceive the external form of his words.
You may take everything you find on him today, either literary or scientific,but it has nothing whatever to do with Johann Gottlieb Fichte.
As I said before, people really have no understanding for this mode of thinking,and what is written today about Fichte could well be compared to what a blind man might say about color.
It was an event also in this respect, that at that time, from all around Jena,individuals in need of a world outlook came to hear Fichte speak.
One of the prime formulators of the Germannational identity was Johann Gottlieb Fichte who, in his book“The Science of Knowledge”(1794), defined one's identity on a double basis: the“I” and the“Not-I.”.
Helmholtz was the son of a gymnasium headmaster, Ferdinand Helmholtz, who had studied classical philology and philosophy,and who was a close friend of Immanuel Hermann Fichte.
One who reads the correspondence, of which there is a great deal,in which people tell of hearing Fichte in Jena, will again and again come across passages testifying to Fichte's tremendous spiritual influence.
Helmholtz was the son of the Potsdam Gymnasium headmaster, Ferdinand Helmholtz, who had studied classical philology and philosophy, and who was aclose friend of the publisher and philosopher Immanuel Hermann Fichte.
Experiencing this awakening as I have described it in my book, Vom Menschenrätsel[English translation: The Riddle of Man],where I comment on Johann Gottlieb Fichte, is to develop a soul attitude completely different from that prevalent today.
British philosopher Isaiah Berlin listed Helvétius, along with Hegel, Fichte, Rousseau, Saint-Simon and Maistre as one of the six"enemies of freedom" who constituted the ideological basis for modern authoritarianism, in his book Freedom and Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty.[12].
Compare this with a publication from London- quite aside from the language- and you will discover that there is a greater similarity between the publication from London and the book from Vienna, Paris, or even New York or Chicago than there is between the present thoughts and ideas in literary and scientific works from Vienna and Berlin,and the special nuance which Fichte[ Note 53] for example, poured into his thoughts as an enlivening element.
Fichte claimed- alas, with great accuracy- that we define ourselves both on the basis of what each of us conceives as his or her“I,” namely, on what characterizes me at the level of essence, yet also on the basis of what we perceive as that which is essentially“Not-I”: namely, what is essentially alien to my being.
Therefore, it is necessary to realize that if one really wishes to understandindividuals who have worked from such a basis as did Fichte, Hegel, Schelling and Goethe, one must understand them in the same way an Indian understood his Yoga initiates.
The most notablethinkers in the movement were Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and the members of Jena Romanticism(Friedrich Hölderlin, Novalis, and Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel).[2] Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Gottlob Ernst Schulze, Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Salomon Maimon and Friedrich Schleiermacher also made major contributions.