The Vocation of the Scholar, Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1794
Channel: Age of Enlightenment
Date: 2016-01-21

Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762-1814 is studied in most universities in the United States and Europe. What is a scholar? Where did that word come from?

Hewas a German scholar who lectured on The Vocation of the Scholar as well as The Vocation of Man.  These lectures were given at The University of Jena in 1794.
Here is the text: https://archive.org/details/vocationofschola00fich

And the Text for The Vocation of Man https://archive.org/details/cu31924029040744

He also wrote The Nature of the Scholar

Fichte gave many lectures and published many books.
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