 The final upshot of Reinhold’s Auseinandersetzung with Fichte was the former’s recantation of his own Elementary Philosophy and transference of his allegiance to the standpoint of Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre. This conversion was made public in early 1797, in the preface to Reinhold’s Auswahl Vermischster Schriften, Zweyter Band [Selection of Various Writings, Volume II] and in his revised 1795 Prize Essay, featured in that work. It was elaborated in a lengthy review essay in the Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung of Fichte’s recent writings, and again, the following year, in Reinhold’s Ueber die Paradoxien der neuesten Philosophie [Concerning the Paradoxes of the most recent Philosophy], in which he explicitly acknowledged the inadequacy of his own Principle of Consciousness as the foundation of philosophy as a whole and endorsed Fichte’s proposal for a more “active” first principle (the Tathandlung, or “fact-act” of the I’s self-positing), which would be capable of fully integrating theoretical with practical reason, as well as uniting theoretical and practical philosophy.