ABSTRACT
J. G. Fichte appeals to unprejudiced readers who have neither acted in this affair nor taken sides for or against the opinions that have been disputed here. The purpose of his essay was to raise these unprejudiced people to the level of a public audience for this affair and to make them my judge. Only the unprejudiced, for as little as his opponents can claim to have a voice, just as little do he demand that the friends of the latest philosophy, and even of modern philosophy, be heard. The unprejudiced, however little they may follow his inferences, are still more or less in agreement with his principle, that of pure moralism. He have faithfully and clearly depicted the doctrine of my opponents, in accordance with which mine must seem atheistic to them, as well as his doctrine, in accordance with which theirs must seem idolatrous and blasphemous to him.
