Johann Gottlieb Fichte (19 May 1762-27 January 1814) was a moral thinker from Prussia.
Biography[]
Johann Gottlieb Fichte was born on 19 May 1762 in Rammenau, Electorate of Saxony (in present-day Germany), and he was educated in theology and through private studies. He was a student of Immanuel Kant, and he was a philosopher who believed in "German idealism", self-consciousness, and self-awareness. Fichte also developed the thesis-antithesis-synthesis theory, in which a theory is faced with a challenging theory, and the theory and the rival theory reconcile to form a new theory. He was also responsible for encouraging German nationalism, and he died in Berlin, Prussia in 1814.