The End of Doubt by Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1799
Channel: Craig Campbell
Date: 2020-03-02

This is an excerpt from Johann Fichte's 1799 book The Destination of Man, also translated as The Vocation of Man. 

My inquiry is closed, and my desire of knowledge satisfied. I know what I am, and wherein consists the nature of my species.  I am a manifestation of a self-determining power of Nature, whose operation is determined by the whole of the universe.  Am I a free agent, or am I merely the manifestation of a foreign power?