The Fate of Choice: Freedom and Imputability in Kant and His Early Successors

Jörg Noller obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Munich in 2014, where he habilitated in 2021. He is a lecturer at the University of Munich and co-editor of Kant’s Early Critics on Freedom of the Will (2022).

Preface

Translations and Abbreviations



Introduction: Kant and the Fate of Autonomy Reconsidered



Part 1: Freedom, Autonomy, and Choice: Kant and the Pre-Kantian Tradition



1 liberum arbitrium: Kant and the Problem of Willkür

2 Transcendental Freedom: Kant on Spontaneity

3 Practical Freedom: Kant on Autonomy and Moral Respect

4 Individual Freedom: Kant on Choice and Responsibility



Part 2: Freedom, Determinism, and Imputability



5 Freedom and Necessity: Johann August Heinrich Ulrich

6 Against Ulrich’s Determinism: Christian Jacob Kraus

7 Intelligible Fatalism: Carl Christian Erhard Schmid

8 Against Intelligible Fatalism: Karl Leonhard Reinhold (I)

9 Excursus. the Incapacity of Freedom

  Does Kant’s Ethics Imply an Intelligible Fatalism?



Part 3: Freedom, Reason, and Skepticism



10 The Deduction of Freedom: Johann Heinrich Abicht

11 Skepticism and Freedom: Leonhard Creuzer

12 Beyond Intelligible Fatalism and Indifferentism: Friedrich Karl Forberg

13 Critique of Mere Choice: Christoph Gottfried Bardili

14 The Reflection of Will: Fichte’s Volitional Anti-Skepticism

15 Excursus. Reason’s Responsibility

  Kant on Rationalizing



Part 4: Freedom, Individuality, and Compatibility



16 Individuality at Risk: Rehberg’s Critique of Pure Practical Reason

17 Freedom as Choice: Karl Leonhard Reinhold (II)

18 Against Choice: Maimon’s Reply to Reinhold

19 Heautonomy: Schiller’s Aesthetic Compatibilism

20 “Will is primal being”: Schelling’s Real Compatibilism



Conclusion: Revisiting Choice



Bibliography

Index