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This book investigates various aspects of freedom as developed in the philosophical systems of Kant and Fichte.
List of contents
1. The Identity of Reason ; 2. Lichtenberg’s ‘Es denkt’ versus Kant’s ‘Ich denke’ ; 3. Of Modal Concepts in Kant’s Transcendental Discourse 4. Can practical reason be artificial?; 5. "The Eye of True Philosophy:" On the Relationship between Kant’s Anthropology and His Critical Philosophy; 6. Kant am Pregelflusse: Site and Systemicity in the Preface to the Anthropology; 7. Kant’s Philosophy of Religion—a Provocation to the Historical Religions; 8. Hume and Kant on Utility, Freedom, and Justice; 9. Reading Fichte today. The prospect of a transcendental philosophy; 10. Fichte’s Original Presentation of the Foundational Principles of the Wissenschaftslehre: The Question of Method; 11. The Idea of Universal Monarchy in Fichte’s Practical Philosophy;;
About the author
Giovanni Pietro Basile studied physics, theology, and philosophy. He did his PhD in Philosophy at the LMU Munich, with a dissertation on Kant’s Opus postumum. He is Associate Professor at the Philosophy Department of Boston College. Among his main publications are two books on Kant—Transcendance et finitude. La synthèse transcendantale dans la Critique de la raison pure de Kant. With a preface of François Marty, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2005, and Kants Opus postumum und seine Rezeption. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2013—and several papers on Kant, Karl Jaspers, and Paul Ricœur.
Ansgar Lyssy is currently Researcher at the University of Heidelberg, working on a project on causality in Hegel, funded by a grant from the Thyssen Foundation. In 2020, he finished his Habilitationsschrift at LMU Munich, a yet unpublished monograph titled Humankind and Humanity in Kant. This research was funded by a research grant from the German Research Foundation. Notable publications include Kausalität und Teleologie bei G. W. Leibniz, Stuttgart: Franz-Steiner (Studia Leibnitiana, Special Issue No. 48), 2016, three anthologies on Kant and the philosophy of the eighteenth century, and several papers on Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, and other related thinkers.
Summary
This book investigates various aspects of freedom as developed in the philosophical systems of Kant and Fichte.
