Freedom and reason in Kant, Schelling, and Kierkegaard / Michelle Kosch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kosch, Michelle, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Free will and determinism--History--19th century.

Free will and determinism.

Ethics, Modern--19th century.

Ethics, Modern.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 1775-1854.

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von.

Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.

Kierkegaard, Søren.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 236 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Michelle Kosch's book traces a complex of issues surrounding moral agency - how is moral responsibility consistent with the possibility of theoretical explanation? is moral agency essentially rational agency? can autonomy be the foundation of ethics? - from Kant through Schelling to Kierkegaard. There are two complementary projects here. The first is to clarify the contours of German idealism as a philosophical movement by examining the motivations not only of its beginning, butalso of its end. In tracing the motivations for the transition to mid-19th century post-idealism to Schelling's middl

Contents:

Kant's account of freedom

Kant on autonomy and moral evil

Idealism and autonomy in Schelling's early systems

Freedom against reason : Schelling's Freiheitsschrift and later work

'Despair' in the pseudonymous works, and Kierkegaard's double incompatibilism

Religiousness B and agency

A brief case against a voluntarist understanding of faith in the Climacus works

Agency in The sickness unto death and in The concept of anxiety.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-232) and index.

ISBN:

0-19-957794-3

1-281-15467-9

9786611154677

0-19-153723-3

1-4356-2421-1

OCLC:

191826514