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  • Ludwig Heinrich von Jakob, “On Freedom,” Berlin, 1788

  • 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 119-126

  • Summary

    Ludwig Heinrich von Jakob claims in his 1788 “On Freedom” that we know we are free by virtue of our self-consciousness. Drawing broadly on Kant’s doctrine of the fact of reason, Jakob asserts that freedom is a fact. However, Jakob does not claim that this fact is furnished by consciousness of the moral law. Instead it is immediately given through inner sense. This supposedly parallels how we know that a body is distinct from us because our consciousness of it as given through outer sense entails that it does not belong to our self.