Metaphysics of Freedom? Kant's Concept of Cosmological Freedom in Historical and Systematic Perspective.

• Superior document: Critical studies in German idealism ; Volume 23
• Author: Christian H. Krijnen (Editor)
• TeilnehmendeR: Krijnen, Christian,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, , Boston: : Brill, , 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Studies in German Idealism 23.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (231 pages).

Freedom is one of the main issues of modern philosophy and Kant’s philosophy of freedom a major source for comprehending it. Whereas in contemporary debates Kant’s concept of practical freedom is addressed frequently, the cosmological foundation of it is much less discussed and even mostly taken for granted. In Metaphysics of Freedom? , by contrast, Kant’s concept of cosmological freedom is scrutinized both in a historical and a systematic perspective. As a result, a deeper and broader understanding of Kant’s conception of freedom, its presuppositions, and problems emerges.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction / Christian Krijnen -- Free Will in Antiquity and in Kant / Michael N. Forster -- Freedom in Nature, Freedom of the Mind in Spinoza / Gábor Boros -- Kants theoretischer Freiheitsbegriff und die Tradition der „libertas spontaneitatis“ / Thomas Sören Hoffmann -- The Freedom of the Monad and the Subject of Freedom / Klaus Erich Kaehler -- Das Problem der transzendentalen Freiheit und seine Lösung: Kant versus Wolff / Heiner F. Klemme -- Kant on “Practical Freedom” and Its Transcendental Possibility / Stephan Zimmermann -- Absolute Spontaneity and Self-Determination: The Fact of Reason and the Categories of Freedom / Martin Bunte -- Kant’s Problems with Freedom and Fichte’s Response to the Challenge / Marina F. Bykova -- Sameness and Otherness in the Free Principle of Philosophy: Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre in Comparison to Hegel’s Science of Logic / Faustino Fabbianelli -- Kant’s Conception of Cosmological Freedom and its Metaphysical Legacy / Christian Krijnen -- Hegel’s Concept of Recognition as the Solution to Kant’s Third Antinomy / Arthur Kok -- Does Spontaneity have to be Naturalized? Freedom as Spontaneity—Today and in Kant / Jakub Kloc-Konkołowicz -- Back Matter -- Index.