ABSTRACT
J. G. Fichte was born in Rammenau, in Western Saxony on 19 May 1762. After attending school at Pforta, he entered the theology faculty of Jena University. The subsequent realization that the author was a young, relatively unknown philosopher caused a sensation within academic society, and Fichte was offered the prestigious chair of philosophy at Jena University. Fichte conceived of his Wissenschaftslehre as the completion of Immanuel Kant's transcendental idealism. Fichte moved to Berlin where he continued to develop and teach his Wissenschaftslehre. In his 1794 essay Concerning the Concept of the Wissenschaftslehre Fichte tells us that philosophers must not give laws to the human mind but must rather attempt to describe it, assuming the role of 'writers of pragmatic history'. Fichte argues that the non-philosophical consciousness is, under the supervision of the philosopher, to traverse the series in reverse, proceeding from sensation to reason.
