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Quote by Johann Gottlieb Fichte

“The correct relationship between the higher and lower classes, the appropriate mutual interaction between the two is, as such, the true underlying support on which the improvement of the human species rests. The higher classes constitute the mind of the single large whole of humanity; the lower classes constitute its limbs; the former are the thinking and designing [ Entwerfende ] part, the latter the executive part.”

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Johann Gottlieb Fichte was a German philosopher who is considered one of the founders of German classical philosophy. His ideas have had a profound impact on German philosophy and the entire Western philosophical tradition. He was born in May 1762 and died on January 27, 1814. more

“The new education must consist essentially in this, that it completely destroys freedom of will in the soil which it undertakes to cultivate, and produces on the contrary strict necessity in the decisions of the will, the opposite being impossible. Such a will can henceforth be relied on with confidence and certainty.”

Decision Impossible Produce Opposites Contrary Certainty Soil Strict

Book:Addresses to the German nation

Source: Addresses to the German nation

“This Being out of God cannot, by any means, be a limited, completed, and inert Being, since God himself is not such a dead Being, but, on the contrary, is Life; but it can only be a Power, since only a Power is the true formal picture or Schema of Life. And indeed it can only be the Power of realising that which is contained in itself a Schema.”

Mean Contrary Realising Formal Schemas

Author:Johann Gottlieb Fichte

“Only through blind Instinct, in which the only possible guidance of the Imperative is awanting, does the Power in Intuition remain undetermined; where it is schematised as absolute it becomes infinite; and where it is presented in a determinate form, as a principle, it becomes at least manifold. By the above-mentioned act of Intelligising, the Power liberates itself from Instinct, to direct itself towards Unity.”

Doe Form Principles Direct Absolutes Infinite Blind Unity Instinct Intuition Guidance Imperatives Manifold

Author:Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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