# Johann Gottlieb Fichte

- id: fichte
- dates: 1762–1814
- roles: author

Post-Kantian philosopher. His 1793 defense of the freedom of thought was published anonymously while he argued, in its own pages, that every honest man must acknowledge what he has written.

## Works in the atlas

- Reclamation of the Freedom of Thought (zuruckforderung-der-denkfreiheit)

## Sources

- James Schmidt (ed.) (1996). What is Enlightenment? Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions.