The Fate of Choice: Freedom and Imputability in Kant and His Early Successors /

The Fate of Choice: Freedom and Imputability in Kant and His Early Successors /

This book reconstructs the intense early post-Kantian debate on freedom of the will, choice, and moral imputability for the first time. It addresses the following questions: How is freedom of choice possible given the causal predetermination of the world? How can we escape skepticism about freedom o...

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Main Author: Noller, Jörg (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: New Research in the History of Western Philosophy ; 7.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

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Free will and determinism > History > 18th century.
Free will and determinism > History > 19th century.

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Call Number: B2799.F8

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Translations and Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Kant and the Fate of Autonomy Reconsidered
  • Part 1: Freedom, Autonomy, and Choice: Kant and the Pre-Kantian Tradition
  • 1 liberum arbitrium : Kant and the Problem of Willkür
  • 2 Transcendental Freedom: Kant on Spontaneity
  • 3 Practical Freedom: Kant on Autonomy and Moral Respect
  • 4 Individual Freedom: Kant on Choice and Responsibility
  • Part 2: Freedom, Determinism, and Imputability
  • 5 Freedom and Necessity: Johann August Heinrich Ulrich
  • 6 Against Ulrich's Determinism: Christian Jacob Kraus
  • 7 Intelligible Fatalism: Carl Christian Erhard Schmid
  • 8 Against Intelligible Fatalism: Karl Leonhard Reinhold (I)
  • 9 Excursus. the Incapacity of Freedom
  • Does Kant's Ethics Imply an Intelligible Fatalism?
  • Part 3: Freedom, Reason, and Skepticism
  • 10 The Deduction of Freedom: Johann Heinrich Abicht
  • 11 Skepticism and Freedom: Leonhard Creuzer
  • 12 Beyond Intelligible Fatalism and Indifferentism: Friedrich Karl Forberg
  • 13 Critique of Mere Choice: Christoph Gottfried Bardili
  • 14 The Reflection of Will: Fichte's Volitional Anti-Skepticism
  • 15 Excursus. Reason's Responsibility
  • Kant on Rationalizing
  • Part 4: Freedom, Individuality, and Compatibility
  • 16 Individuality at Risk: Rehberg's Critique of Pure Practical Reason
  • 17 Freedom as Choice: Karl Leonhard Reinhold (II)
  • 18 Against Choice: Maimon's Reply to Reinhold
  • 19 Heautonomy: Schiller's Aesthetic Compatibilism
  • 20 "Will is primal being": Schelling's Real Compatibilism
  • Conclusion: Revisiting Choice
  • Bibliography
  • Index.