Freedom and Reason in Kant, Schelling, and Kierkegaard

by Kosch, Michelle

• ISBN13: 9780199577941
• ISBN10: 0199577943
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-19
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The book traces a set of issues surrounding moral agency from Kant through Schelling to Kierkegaard. It aims to clarify the contours of German idealism as a philosophical movement by examining the motivations not only of its beginning, but also of its dissolution in the work of the later Schelling, and tracing both to the same complex of issues in Kant. It then builds a new understanding of Kierkegaard's theory of agency and his criticisms of idealist ethics and metaphysics upon this revised account of the historical background. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Michelle Kosch is Professor of Philosophy at the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vi
List of Abbreviations	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Kant's Account of Freedom	p. 15
Outline of Kant's View of Freedom	p. 16
Kant's Two Strategies for Demonstrating the Reality of Transcendental Freedom	p. 29
Unifying the Claims of Theoretical and Practical Reason	p. 37
Kant on Autonomy and Moral Evil	p. 44
Causes and Laws	p. 46
Kant's View in Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason (and its Partial Retraction)	p. 57
Idealism and Autonomy in Schelling's Early Systems	p. 66
The Early Systematic Project	p. 67
Fate as Freedom	p. 76
Freedom against Reason: Schelling's Freiheitsschrift and Later Work	p. 87
'freedom for good and evil': Freedom and System in the Freiheitsschrift	p. 90
A New System: Schelling's Positive Philosophy of the 1830s and 1840s	p. 105
Excursus: Late Idealism and Schelling's Influence	p. 122
'Despair' in the Pseudonymous Works, and Kierkegaard's Double Incompatibilism	p. 139
The Aesthetic View of Life and the First Incompatibilism	p. 141
The Ethical View, Religiousness A, and the Second Incompatibilism	p. 155
Religiousness B and Agency	p. 179
The Structure of Religiousness B	p. 179
A Brief Case against a Voluntarist Understanding of Faith in the Climacus Works	p. 187
Agency in The Sickness unto Death and in The Concept of Anxiety	p. 200
Conclusion	p. 217
Bibliography	p. 221
Index	p. 233
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