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Johann Gottlieb Fichte on Freedom

1762–1814 Germany

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Instinct is blind;—a consciousness without insight. Freedom, as the opposite of Instinct, is thus seeing, and clearly conscious of the grounds of its activity.

The Characteristics of the Present Age (1806)

The End of the Life of Mankind on Earth is this,—that in this Life they may order all their relations with FREEDOM according to REASON.

The Characteristics of the Present Age (1806)

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