ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the J. G. Fichte Doctrine of Right as it is presented in his Foundations of Natural Right of the year 1796. The deduction of the concept of right, which is the foundation for his Doctrine of Right, places the concept into the framework of the Science of Knowledge. In the Doctrine of Right Fichte stresses the strong connection between the fundamental rights of the individuals and the sovereignty of the state. In the Science of Knowledge Fichte analyzes the necessary conditions of knowledge and consciousness. According to his proposition that each individual can be coerced to enter into a state Fichte presumes that “all human beings living on the earth’s surface would gradually become united in a single state.” Fichte suggests that the states mutually “guarantee the security of the other’s citizens, just as each guarantees the security of its own.”
