Abstract:

From a rational point of view, Fichte elaborated his thoughts and critical spirit in his idea of self-alienation. He first
recognized man was a rational animal, and in his book On the Academic Mission he suggested that man's ultimate goal was the freedom to control irrational things. Fichte's "rationality", from an ontological sense, was associated with freedom; while from a methodological sense, "rationality" was a valid law of universal pursuit. But by taking his understandings of the reality as the pursuit of first principle and the construction of the science of knowledge, Fichte abstractly criticised the social reality from the perspective of philosophy .

Key words: Fichte, self-alienation, rationality, criticism