Johann Gottlieb Fichte
(1762-1814)
Third of six weekly lectures by Isaiah Berlin
Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
In these lectures Isaiah Berlin discusses the ideas of some social and politicai thinkers before and after the French Revolution which, in his view, have had a greater influence both for good and evil in the twentieth century than in their own time and are now more important than ever.
In this lecture Mr. Berlin tadks about
Fidate's doctrine of freedom and morality u the assertion of the self, and speaks of its roots in German thought and its incompatibility with the liberal Western ideas of Fichte's time.