How did Johann Gottlieb Fichte affect 18th and 19th century philosophy?
My friend; Fichte also developed a theory of the state based on the idea of self-sufficiency. In his mind, the state should control international relations, the value of money, and remain an autarky. Because of this necessity to have relations with other rational beings in order to achieve consciousness, Fichte writes that there must be a ‘relation of right,’ in which there is a mutual recognition of rationality by both parties. In an earlier work from 1793 dealing with the ideals and politics of the French Revolution: Beiträge zur Berichtigung der Urteile des Publikums über die Französische Revolution (Contributions to the Correction of the Public’s Judgment concerning the French Revolution), he called Jews a “state within a state” that could “undermine” the German nation (GA I/1: pp. 292-293). In regard to Jews getting “civil rights”, he wrote that this would only be possible if one managed “to cut off all their heads in one night, and to set new ones on their shoulders, which should
