Johann Gottlieb Fichte, main views and writings
Key words: Theological studies, Nationalism
After weathering several academic storms, Fichte was finally dismissed from the University of Jena in 1799 for atheism. He had been accused of this in 1798 after publishing the essay "On the Ground of Our Belief in a Divine World-Governance", written in response to Friedrich Karl Forberg's essay "Development of the Concept of Religion", in his Philosophical Journal. For Fichte, God should be conceived primarily in moral terms: "The living and efficaciously acting moral order is itself God. We require no other God, nor can we grasp any other"
Lectures, entitled the Addresses to the German Nation, display Fichte's interest during that period in language and culture as vehicles of human spiritual development. The aim of the German nation, according to Fichte, was to "found an empire of spirit and reason, and to annihilate completely the crude physical force that rules of the world." Like Herder's German nationalism, Fichte's was cultural, and grounded in the aesthetic, literary, and moral.
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