Fichte’s Concept of Recognition and Poverty as Material Deprivation

Fichte's conception of the body: The intertwining of sociality and embodiment

“…It only means that, for Fichte, as I read him, the vast inequalities of resources and opportunities are not legitimate because such inequalities undermine or distort the agency of the poor. For a discussion of how Fichte's concept of recognition requires that people should not suffer from poverty, see Neuhann (2020). In Neuhann's view, Fichte's defense of the right to bodily inviolability entails that people should not suffer from absolute poverty, which she defines in terms of lack of access to basic material goods such as shelter and food (2020, p. 40).…”