Kant on Freedom Paperback / softback
by Owen (University of Toronto) Ware
Part of the Elements in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant series
Paperback / softback
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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.
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In Stock - Less than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:75 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:08/06/2023
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- ISBN:9781009074551
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In Stock - Less than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:75 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:08/06/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781009074551