Abstract
The study deals with an article by Charles de Villers (1765-1815) published in Le Spectateur du Nord (June 1799), a journal printed in Hamburg and also known as an organ of French emigrants. This article, entitled “Metaphysicien publiquement accuse d’atheisme”, is an advocacy of Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s Philosophy as part of the Atheism dispute. The study first addresses the different stages of the dispute and Fichte’s philosophical development in the field of religious doctrine. A second part focuses on the analysis of Villers’ arguments. Finally, the study attempts to establish the specificity of Villers’ position, which takes on the symbolic dimension of a plea for the freedom of thought, in a key period of the Late Enlightenment, when even the concept of God was called into question.
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