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Although the philosophy of the German patriot Johann Gottlieb Fichte, an immediate follower of Immanuel Kant, began in the inner subjective experience of the individual, with the “I” positing the “not-I”—i.e., feeling compelled to construct a perceived world over against itself—it turns out eventually that, at a more fundamental level, God, as the universal “I,” posits the world at large. The world, or nature, is described in organic terms; God is considered not alone as the Universal Ego but also as the Moral World Order, or ground of ethical principles; and since every human person has a destiny as a ...(100 of 7500 words)