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Ideas of Friedrich Jacobi, by Text

[German, 1743 - 1819, Freelance polemicist and socialite.]

1799	Letter to Fichte

p.26

7072

Jacobi was the first philosopher to talk of nihilism

Ch.2

p.27

7071

Life and rationality are pointless if we can only contemplate the freedom of our own ego