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- Kant’s Early Critics on Freedom of the Will
- Kant’s Early Critics on Freedom of the Will
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Edition and Translation
- Chronology of the Translated Texts and Kant’s Major Works
- Abbreviations
- Historical and Systematic Introduction
- I Freedom and Determinism
- Hermann Andreas Pistorius, Review of “Elucidations of Professor Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason’ by Joh. Schulze, Royal Prussian Court Chaplain. Königsberg: Dengel, 1784. 8, 254 pages,” 1786
- Johann August Heinrich Ulrich, Eleutheriology or On Freedom and Necessity, Jena, 1788
- Christian Wilhelm Snell, On Determinism and Moral Freedom, Offenbach, 1789
- August Ludwig Christian Heydenreich, On Freedom and Determinism and Their Compatibility, Erlangen, 1793
- II Freedom and Imputability
- III Freedom and Consciousness
- IV Freedom and Skepticism
- V Freedom and Choice
- Appendix: Biographical Sketches
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of Persons
- Index of Subjects
August Ludwig Christian Heydenreich, On Freedom and Determinism and Their Compatibility, Erlangen, 1793
from I - Freedom and Determinism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 March 2022
- Kant’s Early Critics on Freedom of the Will
- Kant’s Early Critics on Freedom of the Will
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Edition and Translation
- Chronology of the Translated Texts and Kant’s Major Works
- Abbreviations
- Historical and Systematic Introduction
- I Freedom and Determinism
- Hermann Andreas Pistorius, Review of “Elucidations of Professor Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason’ by Joh. Schulze, Royal Prussian Court Chaplain. Königsberg: Dengel, 1784. 8, 254 pages,” 1786
- Johann August Heinrich Ulrich, Eleutheriology or On Freedom and Necessity, Jena, 1788
- Christian Wilhelm Snell, On Determinism and Moral Freedom, Offenbach, 1789
- August Ludwig Christian Heydenreich, On Freedom and Determinism and Their Compatibility, Erlangen, 1793
- II Freedom and Imputability
- III Freedom and Consciousness
- IV Freedom and Skepticism
- V Freedom and Choice
- Appendix: Biographical Sketches
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of Persons
- Index of Subjects
Summary
August Ludwig Christian Heydenreich’s On Freedom and Determinism and their Compatibility (1793) presents the central tensions between determinism and indeterminism prior to the Critical philosophy and outlines how the latter is able to resolve these tensions. He notes that for all that Kant’s conception of free will was able to accomplish, there is still considerable disagreement on how this conception is to be understood, particularly between Carl Christian Erhard Schmid and Karl Leonhard Reinhold. The originality of Heydenreich’s position consists in his assertion that the moral power of choice cannot belong to the sphere of nature or to the supersensible world. If it belonged to the former, then its actions would necessarily be determined in accordance with the law of causality. If it belonged to the latter, then its actions would necessarily be determined by the moral law and culpability for immoral actions would be abolished. Instead, the moral power of choice must be situated between the two realms and constitute the boundary and bridge between them.
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- Kant's Early Critics on Freedom of the Will , pp. 41 - 60Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022