The concept of will in classical German philosophy : between ethics, politics, and metaphysics / edited by Manja Kisner and Jörg Noller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kisner, Manja, 1986- editor.

Noller, Jörg, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, German.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (VI, 272 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Introduction

Free Will and Determinism: A Solution to the Kantian Paradox

Spontaneity and Contingency: Kant’s Two Models of Rational Self-Determination

How is the Corruption of the Will Possible? Kant on Natural Dialectic and Radical Evil

Eleutheronomy: Will, Law and Liberty in Kant’s Esoterically Political Philosophy

The Fact of Freedom: Reinhold’s Theory of Free Will Reconsidered

On the Real Possibility of a Pure Moral Will: Maimon vs. Kant

Drive as a Constitutive Element of Practical Action in Jacobi and Fichte

Drive and Will in Fichte’s System of Ethics

Reality as Resistance: The Concept of the Will in Bouterwek’s Idea of an Apodictic (1799)

“Will is Primal Being”: Schelling’s Critical Voluntarism

Hegel’s Logical Foundation of the Will: Reconciling Psychology and Social-Ontology

Hegel and the Paradox of Willkür

Ethics and Will in Schopenhauer’s Philosophy

Index of Names

Index of Subjects

Notes on Contributors

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110651744

3110651742

9783110654639

3110654636

OCLC:

1158170592