Practical Philosophy from Kant to Hegel
Freedom, Right, and Revolution

This volume explores the development of post-Kantian practical philosophy through the themes of freedom, right, and revolution.

James A. Clarke (Edited by), Gabriel Gottlieb (Edited by)

9781108497725, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 18 March 2021

290 pages
23.5 x 15.7 x 2 cm, 0.57 kg

'The conceptual richness, the fruitfulness of the themes addressed, just like the attention paid to underage authors, constitute the main merits of this collection, which allows to take little-explored paths within German classical philosophy.' Sabina Tortorella, Archives de philosophie (translated from French)

Scholarship on Kant's practical philosophy has often overlooked its reception in the early days of post-Kantian philosophy and German Idealism. This volume of new essays illuminates that reception and how it informed the development of practical philosophy between Kant and Hegel. The essays discuss, in addition to Kant, Hegel and Fichte, relatively little-known thinkers such as Pistorius, Ulrich, Maimon, Erhard, E. Reimarus, Reinhold, Jacobi, F. Schlegel, Humboldt, Dalberg, Gentz, Rehberg, and Möser. Issues discussed include the empty formalism objection, the separation between right and morality, freedom and determinism, nihilism, the right to revolution, ideology, and the limits of the liberal state. Taken together, the essays provide an historically informed and philosophically nuanced picture of the development of post-Kantian practical philosophy.

Introduction James A. Clarke and Gabriel Gottlieb
1. The original empty formalism objection: Pistorius and Kant Paul Guyer
2. Freedom and ethical necessity: a Kantian response to Ulrich (1788) Katerina Deligiorgi
3. Maimonides and Kant in the ethical thought of Salomon Maimon Timothy Quinn
4. Erhard on right and morality James A. Clarke
5. Erhard on revolutionary action Michael Nance
6. Elise Reimarus on freedom and rebellion Reed Winegar
7. Freedom and obligation: Kant, Reinhold, Fichte Daniel Breazeale
8. Fichte's ethical holism Owen Ware
9. Jacobi on practical nihilism Benjamin Crowe
10. The political implications of Friedrich Schlegel's poetic, republican discourse Elizabeth Millán Brusslan
11. The limits of state action: Humboldt, Dalberg, and perfectionism after Kant Douglas Moggach
12. Echoes of revolution: Hegel's debt to the German Burkeans Reidar Maliks
13. Public opinion and ideology in Hegel's Philosophy of Right Karen Ng.

Subject Areas: Social & political philosophy [HPS], Ethics & moral philosophy [HPQ], Western philosophy, from c 1900 - [HPCF], Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 [HPCD], History of Western philosophy [HPC]