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

Published by De Gruyter 2020

The Concept of Will in Classical German Philosophy

Between Ethics, Politics, and Metaphysics

Edited by: Manja Kisner and Jörg Noller

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110654639

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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 introduces, in the wake of Reinhold, an originally biological concept of drive into his ethical theory, thereby expanding on the Kantian notion of the will. Schelling, Hegel, and Schopenhauer take a step further and conceive the will either as a primal being (Schelling), as a socio-ontological entity (Hegel), or as a blindly striving, non-rational force (Schopenhauer). Thus, the history of the will is marked by a complex set of tensions between rational and non-rational aspects of practical volition. The book outlines these transformations from a historical and systematic point of view. It offers an overview of the most important theories of the will by the major figures of Classical German Philosophy, but also includes interpretations of conceptions developed by lesser-studied philosophers such as Maimon, Jacobi, Reinhold, and Bouterwek.

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Manja Kisner and Jörg Noller, LMU Munich.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction Manja Kisner and Jörg Noller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Kant’s Conception of Will
Free Will and Determinism: A Solution to the Kantian Paradox Sorin Baiasu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Spontaneity and Contingency: Kant’s Two Models of Rational Self-Determination Markus Kohl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
How is the Corruption of the Will Possible? Kant on Natural Dialectic and Radical Evil Halla Kim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Eleutheronomy: Will, Law and Liberty in Kant’s Esoterically Political Philosophy Günter Zöller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Part II. The Concept of Will after Kant
The Fact of Freedom: Reinhold’s Theory of Free Will Reconsidered John Walsh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
On the Real Possibility of a Pure Moral Will: Maimon vs. Kant Amit Kravitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Drive as a Constitutive Element of Practical Action in Jacobi and Fichte Tom Giesbers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Drive and Will in Fichte’s System of Ethics Manja Kisner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Reality as Resistance: The Concept of the Will in Bouterwek’s Idea of an Apodictic (1799) Ansgar Lyssy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
“Will is Primal Being”: Schelling’s Critical Voluntarism Jörg Noller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Hegel’s Logical Foundation of the Will: Reconciling Psychology and Social-Ontology Daniel Wenz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Hegel and the Paradox of Willkür Alex Englander Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Ethics and Will in Schopenhauer’s Philosophy Jenny Bunker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Index of Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars, institutes, libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 272
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 2
Keywords: Kant; German Idealism; concept of will; autonomy

eBook

Published: June 8, 2020
ISBN: 9783110654639

Hardcover

Published: June 8, 2020
ISBN: 9783110649123