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Some Sources of Romanticism: 4 – The Restrained Romantics

Isaiah Berlin

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The Spirit of Fichte, Is Not an Individual Man, but a Common to Many Men

After napoleon's invasions and the general rise of nationaliste sentiment in germany, fichter began thinking that human beings were perhaps what herder said. Although i cannot force my body, i can't force my spirit. The spirit fo for fichte, is not the spirit of an individual man, but something which is common to many men. For a nation to be free means to be free of other nations. And if other nations obstruct it, it must make war. So fichte ends as a kind rapid german patriot and nationalist who says, the world cannot be half slave and half free if we are a free nation.

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