On the Nature of the Scholar

Author's preface
make no claim to the character of a Literary Work such as I have endeavoured to depict in the tenth of them, but are spoken discourses, which I commit to the press in the hope that they may thus be useful to some who had no opportunity of hearing them. They may also be considered as a new and improved edition of the Lectures on the Vocation of the Scholar, which I published twelve years ago;—the task being executed in such a manner as was possible under the conditions laid upon me. And were I called to account for the way in which I have fulfilled my vocation as a public teacher in Erlangen, I should have no objection to these Lectures being taken as an element in the judgment. Further, I have nothing to say about them to the reading public, with whom I feel a constantly increasing dislike to hold communication.


 * Fichte.


 * , January 1806.

Table of contents

 * Lecture 1: General Plan
 * Lecture 2: Closer Definition of the Meaning of the Divine Idea
 * Lecture 3: Of the Progressive Scholar Generally
 * Lecture 4: Of Integrity in Study
 * Lecture 5: How the Integrity of the Student Manifests Itself
 * Lecture 6: Of Academical Freedom
 * Lecture 7: Of the Finished Scholar in General
 * Lecture 8: Of the Scholar as Ruler
 * Lecture 9: Of the Scholar as Teacher
 * Lecture 10: Of the Scholar as Author