The Concept of Will in Classical German Philosophy : : Between Ethics, Politics, and Metaphysics /

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

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 in...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 272 p.)
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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

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