Kant on freedom / Owen Ware.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ware, Owen, author.

Series:

Elements in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant 2397-9461.

Cambridge elements. Elements in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant, 2397-9461

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Free will and determinism.

Liberty--Philosophy.

Liberty.

Law--Philosophy.

Law.

Apathy--Philosophy.

Apathy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (54 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Kant's early critics maintained that his theory of freedom faces a dilemma: either it reduces the will's activity to strict necessity by making it subject to the causality of the moral law, or it reduces the will's activity to blind chance by liberating it from rules of any kind. This Element offers a new interpretation of Kant's theory against the backdrop of this controversy. It argues that Kant was a consistent proponent of the claim that the moral law is the causal law of a free will, and that the supposed ability of free will to choose indifferently between options is an empty concept. Freedom, for Kant, is a power to initiate action from oneself, and the only way to exercise this power is through the law of one's own will, the moral law. Immoral action is not thereby rendered impossible, but it also does not express a genuine ability.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 24, 2023).

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Print version :

ISBN:

9781009070652

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