How did Johann Gottlieb Fichte respond to Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling’s first philosophical work?

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When Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling sent his first philosophical work, Über die Möglichkeit einer Form der Philosophie überhaupt (1795), to Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Fichte expressed strong approval of the text.1

At that time, Schelling revered Fichte as his philosophical model, and both thinkers shared an interest in the concept of the Absolute. However, their relationship later deteriorated as Schelling began to develop his own philosophy of nature. Schelling eventually concluded that Fichte’s system failed to take adequate notice of nature, viewing it merely as an object subordinate to humanity. When Schelling later attempted to unite his own concepts with Fichte’s ego-based philosophy, Fichte rejected these ideas, leading to a sharp and intensive public dispute between the two philosophers.12