The present paper examines Fichte’s concepts of Anerkennung, Aufforderung and Selbstschränkung, solely according to their development in Fichte’s philosophy of natural right of 1796. The aim of the paper is to show that, for Fichte, ‘recognition’ is not a formal concept, but a praxis that has to be understood as a constituing experience of the selbstaffirmation each individual as such is striving for.