ABSTRACT
Johann Gottlieb Fichte modeled his philosophical style on Immanuel Kant's is undeniable. He had been so impressed by Kant's works that he walked to Konigsberg to meet his mentor and to show him the manuscript of his first book: Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation. Kant persuaded his own publisher to bring it out; the publisher, to Fichte's chagrin, omitted the author's name and preface; and the book was immediately hailed as Kant's own philosophy of religion. Fichte was charged with atheism and eventually resigned from the University of Jena rather than apologize for his part in the first issue of the Philosophisches journal, of which he was one of the two editors. Two articles gave offense, the first of them by Fichte himself. The conclusion of Fichte's article is relevant. "Two excellent poets have expressed this confession of faith of a reasonable and good human being in an inimitably beautiful way."
