Immanuel Hermann Fichte

Immanuel Hermann Fichte studied at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha is recorded as having studied under Immanuel Hermann Fichte. The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is philosophy. Places of work recorded in the authority are Bonn and Tübingen. Employment is recorded with University of Tübingen and University of Bonn.

• Region — Western philosophy • Era — 19th-century philosophy • Name — Immanuel Hermann Fichte • Born — 18 July 1796 • Birthplace — Jena, Saxe-Weimar, Holy Roman Empire • Died — 8 August 1879 • Place of death — Stuttgart, Württemberg, German Empire • Education — University of Berlin (PhD, 1818) • Institutions — University of Bonn (1836–1842) University of Tübingen (1842–1863) • School Tradition — German idealism Speculative theism • Main Interests — Metaphysics, ethics, philosophy of religion • Notable Ideas — Concrete theism • Thesis Title — De philosophiae novae Platonicae origine (On the origin of the new Platonic philosophy) • Thesis Url — https: books.google.com/books/about/De_philosophiae_novae_Platonicae_origine.html • Thesis Year — 1818 • Father — J. G. Fichte • Notable Students — Christian Hermann Weisse (epistolary correspondent)

Fichte was born in Jena. He early devoted himself to philosophical studies, being attracted by the later views of his father, which he considered essentially theistic. He graduated from the University of Berlin in 1818. Soon after, he became a lecturer in philosophy there. He also attended the lectures of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, but felt averse to what he deemed to be his pantheistic tendencies. As a result of semi-official suggestions, based on official disapproval of his supposedly liberal views, he decided, in 1822, to leave Berlin and accepted a professorship at the gymnasium in Saarbrücken. In 1826, he went in the same capacity to Düsseldorf. In 1836, he became an extraordinary professor of philosophy at the University of Bonn, and in 1840 full professor. Here, he quickly became a successful and much-admired lecturer. Dissatisfied with the reactionary tendencies of the Prussian Ministry of Education, he accepted a call to the chair of philosophy at the University of Tübingen in 1842 where he continued to give lectures on all philosophic subjects until his retirement in 1875, when he moved to Stuttgart. He died in Stuttgart on 8 August 1879. In 1837, Fichte founded the Zeitschrift für Philosophie und speculative Theologie and edited it from then on. In 1847, the name was changed to Zeitschrift für Philosophie und philosophische Kritik. Publication was suspended 1848–1852, after which Hermann Ulrici and Johann Ulrich Wirth (1810-1879) joined him as editors. This journal served as an organ of Fichte's views, especially on the subject of the philosophy of religion, where he was in alliance with C. H. Weisse (with whom he regularly corresponded after 1829); but, whereas Weisse thought that the Hegelian structure was sound in the main, and its imperfections might be mended, Fichte held it to be defective, and spoke of it as a masterpiece of erroneous consistency or consistent error. Fichte's general views on philosophy seem to have changed considerably as he gained in years, and his influence has been impaired by certain inconsistencies and an appearance of eclecticism, which is strengthened by his predominantly historical treatment of systems, his desire to include divergent systems within his own, and his conciliatory tone.

• De philosophiae novae Platonicae origine (1818). • Sätze zur Vorschule der Theologie (1826). University of California. • Beiträge zur Charakteristik der neueren Philosophie (1829). Harvard. 2nd edition, 1841. Gallica; NYPL. • Johann Gottlieb Fichtes Leben und literarischer Briefwechsel (1830–31). 2 volumes. • Volume 1, 1830. 2nd edition, 1862. Oxford; Stanford; University of Göttingen. • Volume 2, 1831. NYPL. 2nd edition, 1862. Oxford; Stanford. • Über Gegensatz, Wendepunkt und Ziel heutiger Philosophie (1832). University of Michigan. • Grundzüge zum Systeme der Philosophie (1833–1846). 3 volumes. • Volume 1, 1833. Das Erkennen als Selbsterkennen. Gallica. • Volume 2, 1836. Die Ontologie. Gallica; University of Michigan. • Volume 3, 1846. Die speculative Theologie oder allgemeine Religionslehre. Gallica. • Die Idee der Persönlichkeit und die individuelle Fortdauer (1834). 2nd edition, 1855. • De principiorum contradictionis (1840). Gallica. • System der Ethik (1850–53). 2 volumes. • Volume 1, 1850. Gallica; NYPL; Stanford; University of Michigan. • Volume 2, part 1, 1851. Gallica; NYPL; Oxford (1&2); University of Michigan (1&2). • Volume 2, part 2, 1853. Gallica; NYPL. • Anthropologie, Die Lehre von der menschlichen Seele (1856). Gallica; Lane; University of Michigan. 2nd edition, 1860. Oxford; Oxford (Taylor). 3rd edition, 1876. • Über den Unterschied zwischen ethischem und naturalistischem Theismus (1857). • Zur Seelenfrage, Eine philosophische Confession (1859). University of California. • Contributions to Mental Philosophy (1860). Harvard. • Psychologie. Die Lehre vom bewussten Geiste des Menschen (1864–73). 2 volumes. Oxford; University of Michigan. • Volume 1, 1864. • Volume 2, 1873. Harvard. • Die Seelenfortdauer und die Weltstellung des Menschen (1867). • Vermischte Schriften zur Philosophie, Theologie und Ethik (1869). 2 volumes. Oxford. • Volume 1. Gallica. • Volume 2. Gallica. • Die theistische Weltansicht und ihre Berechtigung (1873). Oxford; University of Michigan. • Fragen und Bedenken über die nächste Fortbildung deutscher Speculation (1876). Gallica; Oxford; University of Michigan. • Der neuere Spiritualismus, sein Wert und seine Täuschungen (1878). Oxford. He also edited the complete works and literary correspondence of his father. Some of his works were translated by J. D. Morell under the title of Contributions to Mental Philosophy (1860).

The authorities additionally record the headings Immanuel Hermann von Fichte and Immanuel Fichte. His recorded language was German. His recorded confession was Protestant church. He was the child of Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Johanna Fichte. He married Wilhelmine Fichte.