Jon Stewart

Although this view is largely rejected today, Fichte has traditionally been conceived as a thinker who developed a theory of the isolated individual subject verging on solipsism. His philosophy is therefore even today commonly referred to as «subjective idealism» in order to emphasize this aspect. The present article argues that this traditional reading of Fichte’s role in the history of philosophy is a misunderstanding. In fact, he had a detailed theory of human social and political relations...