Andrea Wulf
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625 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Jun
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says that the self determines how we see the world.
The self is the source of all reality.
And he says there's the self, the Ich, and then there's the Nicht-Ich, the non-self, which is basically the external world, the kind of animals, plants, nature.
And he says that
The self posits its own being, and not only that, through this kind of powerful initial kind of positing, it also creates the non-ich, so the external world, not in itself, but in our mind.
So everything we understand of the external world is shaped by our self.
And what it does is it gives us
Free will.
And that is an incredibly powerful thing.
And this happens just after the French Revolution.
So I think without the French Revolution, Fichte would have not come up with... His philosophy is sparked by the ideas of the French Revolution.
But this happens at the same time.
So you have a bunch of brilliant...
scientists thinkers philosophers poets who all are given this idea of free will and self-determination and it's just the most empowering thing i mean combined with the french revolution which is you know explodes really into europe and no one is unaffected by this by this moment it is you know it's a very very powerful moment i think in the
in the history of who we are, how we understand us.
It gives us a power that we didn't have before.
And you know, the French Revolution really also proves that a revolution is a revolution of ideas.
So ideas, words, philosophy is more powerful than weapons and swords and kings and queens.
And I mean, you know, I think it's almost impossible for us to
Imagine what that must have felt.
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