Self-Determination and the Categories of Freedom in Kant’s Moral Philosophy
Abstract: Kant speaks of our capacity to be “self-determining […] in certain […] laws holding firm a priori” (KrV, B 430). Here the “laws” refer to the categories of freedom introduced in KpV. The categories of freedom, then, are necessary for self-determination. I first explain how Kant employs the notion of determination in his theoretical philosophy. I then explain how the notion is utilized also in his practical philosophy, particularly in connection to the act of determining the forms of willing that make morality possible. I conclude by answering the question, Why are the categories of freedom necessary for self-determination? Understanding why the categories of freedom are required for self-determination will also help clarify the nature and function of Kant’s categories of freedom, which have puzzled many scholars.
© Walter de Gruyter 2012
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- A Draft of Kant’s Reply to Hufeland: Key Questions of Kant’s Dietetics and the Problem of Its Systematic Place in His Philosophy
- Kant’s Regulative Spinozism
- Principled and Unprincipled Maxims
- Self-Determination and the Categories of Freedom in Kant’s Moral Philosophy
- Kant’s Ideality of Genius
- Le Kant de Foucault, une lecture téléologique de l’anthropologie
- Was ist der Mensch? – Das Gehirn-Geist-Problem aus kantischer Sicht Plädoyer für eine transzendentale Anthropologie
- „Kants Projekt des ewigen Friedens im Kontext der modernen Politik“
- Buchbesprechungen
- Zum Tod von Wladimir Brjuschinkin (Vladimir Bryushinkin)
- Zur Kantforschung in Usbekistan
