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 Fichte on Nationalism: “Cosmopolitanism is the desire that the dominant purpose of the existence of the human race will actually be achieved in the human race. Patriotism is the willingness that this goal is achieved primarily in the nation that we are ourselves members and that result from it get along with all mankind ”

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 Fichte on Nationalism: “Cosmopolitanism is the desire that the dominant purpose of the existence of the human race will actually be achieved in the human race. Patriotism is the willingness that this goal is achieved primarily in the nation that we are ourselves members and that result from it get along with all mankind ”

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Born: May 19th 1762, Saxony
Died: January 27, 1814 (aged 51),  Berlin, Prussia
- German
- Obtained a degree in Theology from Leipzig University
- Was alive during the French Revolution

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- Influenced by the Ideas of Kant
- Main political thinker for Perennialism
- Argues that whilst ‘nationalism’ is specifically modern, the ‘nation’ is much older;

-National communities are unified through pre-modern ethic, psychological

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- Published his first political essay in 1793, 'An Appeal for the freedom of thought'
- Critiqued the work of Kant in An attempt at a critique of all revelation which gained Fichte fame
- Advocated German Nationalism in Address to the German Nation as a response to the occupation of German states by Napoleon