ABSTRACT
The human agent whose free efficacy is justified by J. G. Fichte philosophy of right is an essentially economic being, inherently possessive, focused upon his private property as a sphere for his causal activities. Thus Fichte has replaced his initial conception of right as providing a framework for the horizontal community of moral and intelligent persons for an alternate community based upon individualist, unilateral, causal dynamism, in relation to things. The core element in Fichte’s political theory is his materialism: his guiding supposition that embodied species is essentially focused upon the self-interested, individualist, causal manipulation of private property, and seeks to expand that property aggressively. The thrust of Fichte’s exposition of the origin of state authority is to encourage his audience to willingly forfeit the freedom of political judgment and self-rule in order that they may enjoy a secure economic liberty.
