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Kant on freedom

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Kant on freedomOwen Ware.
Author:	Ware, Owen.
Published:	Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2023.
Description:	54 p. :ill., digital ;23 cm.
Notes:	Also issued in print: 2023.
Subject:	Free will and determinism.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009070652
ISBN:	9781009070652

Kant on freedom
Ware, Owen.

Kant on freedom[electronic resource] /Owen Ware. - Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2023. - 54 p. :ill., digital ;23 cm. - Cambridge elements. Elements in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant,2397-9461. - Cambridge elements.Elements in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant..

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

Specialized.

ISBN: 9781009070652

Standard No.: 10.1017/9781009070652doiSubjects--Personal Names:

179255
Kant, Immanuel,
1724-1804.Subjects--Topical Terms:

228631
Free will and determinism.

LC Class. No.: B2799.F8 / W3 2023

Dewey Class. No.: 123.5092

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