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 sockal and political thinkers before and after the French Revolution which, in his view, have bad 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 talks about Fichte's doctrine of freedom and morality as 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.
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