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  • Johann Heinrich Abicht, “On the Freedom of the Will,” Neues Philosophisches Magazin 1, Part I(III), (Leipzig, 1789), 64–85

  • from III - Freedom and Consciousness
  • Edited and translated by Jörg Noller, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen, John Walsh, Martin Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
  • Book:
    Kant's Early Critics on Freedom of the Will
    Published online:
    24 March 2022
    Print publication:
    31 March 2022, pp 135-144

  • Summary

    In his “On the Freedom of the Will” (1789), Johann Heinrich Abicht rejects the proposition that freedom immediately reveals itself to us through consciousness or some special feeling. Were that the case, Abicht maintains, then freedom would be knowable, which is impossible given that it is transcendental and inaccessible to our understanding. Nevertheless, on Abicht’s view, consciousness still plays a role in demonstrating that our will is free. He grants that we are conscious of certain internal volitional appearances, e.g. approval, decision, inclination, desire, etc. In order to demonstrate the concept of freedom, which Abicht understands as the capacity to be the self-contained ground of volition, we must prove that the ultimate grounds of these appearances are internal to the I and therefore not subject to external determination.