The Concept of Will in Classical German Philosophy : : Between Ethics, Politics, and Metaphysics / / ed. by Manja Kisner, Jörg Noller.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Baiasu, Sorin,; Bunker, Jenny,; Englander, Alex,; Giesbers, Tom,; Kim, Halla,; Kisner, Manja,; Kohl, Markus,; Kravitz, Amit,; Lyssy, Ansgar,; Noller, Jörg,; Walsh, John,; Wenz, Daniel,; Zöller, Günter,
• HerausgeberIn: Kisner, Manja,; Noller, Jörg,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 272 p.)

This volume collects thirteen original essays that address the concept of will in Classical German Philosophy from Kant to Schopenhauer. During this short, but prolific period, the concept of will underwent various transformations. While Kant identifies the will with pure practical reason, Fichte introduces, in the wake of Reinhold, an originally biological concept of drive into his ethical theory, thereby expanding on the Kantian notion of the will. Schelling, Hegel, and Schopenhauer take a step further and conceive the will either as a primal being (Schelling), as a socio-ontological entity (Hegel), or as a blindly striving, non-rational force (Schopenhauer). Thus, the history of the will is marked by a complex set of tensions between rational and non-rational aspects of practical volition. The book outlines these transformations from a historical and systematic point of view. It offers an overview of the most important theories of the will by the major figures of Classical German Philosophy, but also includes interpretations of conceptions developed by lesser-studied philosophers such as Maimon, Jacobi, Reinhold, and Bouterwek.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Kant’s Conception of Will -- Free Will and Determinism: A Solution to the Kantian Paradox -- Spontaneity and Contingency: Kant’s Two Models of Rational Self-Determination -- How is the Corruption of the Will Possible? Kant on Natural Dialectic and Radical Evil -- Eleutheronomy: Will, Law and Liberty in Kant’s Esoterically Political Philosophy -- Part II. The Concept of Will after Kant -- The Fact of Freedom: Reinhold’s Theory of Free Will Reconsidered -- On the Real Possibility of a Pure Moral Will: Maimon vs. Kant -- Drive as a Constitutive Element of Practical Action in Jacobi and Fichte -- Drive and Will in Fichte’s System of Ethics -- Reality as Resistance: The Concept of the Will in Bouterwek’s Idea of an Apodictic (1799) -- “Will is Primal Being”: Schelling’s Critical Voluntarism -- Hegel’s Logical Foundation of the Will: Reconciling Psychology and Social-Ontology -- Hegel and the Paradox of Willkür -- Ethics and Will in Schopenhauer’s Philosophy -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- Notes on Contributors