Editing Johann Gottlieb Fichte (section)

===Atheism dispute===
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Fichte was dismissed from the University of Jena in 1799 for [[atheism]]. He had been accused of this in 1798 after publishing the essay "Ueber{{sic}} den Grund unsers{{sic}} Glaubens an eine göttliche Weltregierung" ("On the Ground of Our Belief in a Divine World-Governance"), written in response to [[Friedrich Karl Forberg]]'s essay "Development of the Concept of Religion", in his ''Philosophical Journal''. For Fichte, God should be conceived primarily in moral terms: "The living and efficaciously acting moral order is itself God. We require no other God, nor can we grasp any other" ("On the Ground of Our Belief in a Divine World-Governance"). Fichte's intemperate "Appeal to the Public" ("Appellation an das Publikum", 1799) provoked [[F. H. Jacobi]] to publish an [[open letter]] in which he equated philosophy in general and Fichte's [[transcendental philosophy]] in particular with [[nihilism]].<ref name=SEP/>