ID - 119064550 TI - Kant on freedom PY - 2023 SN - 9781009070652 9781009074551 1009074555 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Free will and determinism. KW - Liberty KW - Law KW - Apathy KW - Philosophy. KW - Kant, Immanuel, KW - Impassivity KW - Indifference KW - Unconcern KW - Emotions KW - Jurisprudence KW - Compatibilism KW - Determinism and free will KW - Determinism and indeterminism KW - Free agency KW - Freedom and determinism KW - Freedom of the will KW - Indeterminism KW - Liberty of the will KW - Determinism (Philosophy) KW - Kant, Immanuel KW - Kant, I. KW - Kānt, ʻAmmānūʼīl, KW - Kant, Immanouel, KW - Kant, Immanuil, KW - Kʻantʻŭ, KW - Kant, KW - Kant, Emmanuel, KW - Ḳanṭ, ʻImanuʼel, KW - Kant, E., KW - Kant, Emanuel, KW - Cantơ, I., KW - Kant, Emanuele, KW - Kant, Im. KW - קאנט KW - קאנט, א. KW - קאנט, עמנואל KW - קאנט, עמנואל, KW - קאנט, ע. KW - קנט KW - קנט, עמנואל KW - קנט, עמנואל, KW - كانت ، ايمانوئل KW - كنت، إمانويل، KW - カントイマニユエル, KW - Kangde, KW - 康德, KW - Kanṭ, Īmānwīl, KW - كانط، إيمانويل KW - Kant, Manuel, KW - Free will and determinism KW - General ethics KW - Political philosophy. Social philosophy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:119064550 AB - 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. ER -