Dear Friends,
It is strange to write about Johann Fichte, the great German philosopher, one of the sources of the Romantic movement — strange to write of him in third person, for he is the great philosopher of the first person, the I.
When we see Reality in the third person, as He, She, It, or They, we see not reality itself, but our thoughts about it. In this reduction, it has lost its agency; that is why, when we speak of They, it seems impossible that They should change.
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