Johann Fichte by Thomas Dray 2018 (N0810159) https://padlet.com/thomas_dray2018/3rphc1m7ibi3 en-us 2019-02-12 12:16:14 UTC 2025-09-29 15:39:32 UTC hello@padlet.com Background thomas_dray2018 https://padlet.com/thomas_dray2018/3rphc1m7ibi3/wish/330285823 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]]> 2019-02-12 12:17:18 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_dray2018/3rphc1m7ibi3/wish/330285823 Main Ideas thomas_dray2018 https://padlet.com/thomas_dray2018/3rphc1m7ibi3/wish/330286685 - 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
]]> 2019-02-12 12:21:26 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_dray2018/3rphc1m7ibi3/wish/330286685 thomas_dray2018 https://padlet.com/thomas_dray2018/3rphc1m7ibi3/wish/330286745 2019-02-12 12:21:43 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_dray2018/3rphc1m7ibi3/wish/330286745 Works thomas_dray2018 https://padlet.com/thomas_dray2018/3rphc1m7ibi3/wish/330289153 - 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 ]]> 2019-02-12 12:30:42 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_dray2018/3rphc1m7ibi3/wish/330289153 thomas_dray2018 https://padlet.com/thomas_dray2018/3rphc1m7ibi3/wish/330290889 2019-02-12 12:36:27 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_dray2018/3rphc1m7ibi3/wish/330290889 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 ” serenadg https://padlet.com/thomas_dray2018/3rphc1m7ibi3/wish/330291762 2019-02-12 12:39:42 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_dray2018/3rphc1m7ibi3/wish/330291762 thomas_dray2018 https://padlet.com/thomas_dray2018/3rphc1m7ibi3/wish/330294091 2019-02-12 12:48:00 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_dray2018/3rphc1m7ibi3/wish/330294091