Rousseau and Kant on Freedom

Kant and the Categories of Freedom

In the second chapter of the Analytic of Pure Practical Reason Kant introduces the ‘table of categories of freedom in regard of the concepts of good and evil’. is table has baffled many interpreters and has been described as one of the most obscure parts of Kant’s critical system. Kant does not seem to give any detailed explanation of what the categories of freedom are supposed to do and how t...

Rousseau and Criticism Rousseau et la Critique

a critical study on kant`s view of human autonomy and freedom

for kant, it is impossible for theoretical reason to prove human autonomy and freedom. he, therefore, tries to prove it as an axiom by practical reason or ethics. kant believes freedom as the quality of human will. he has known free will to be the same as autonomous will; that is, human will would be considered free in such a case that it causes some effects while being itself not caused by the...

Spinoza and Kant on Suicide

In this paper I’m going to argue that both, Spinoza and Kant, construct the argument “for the impossibility of self-destruction” and examine how the concept of suicide relates to the concept of humanity in both philosophers. I will argue that Kant’s and Spinoza’s argument for the impossibility of self-destruction follows from the “external cause” premise and not from “the same subject” premise....

Kant on Representation and Objectivity

ion upon those sensible forms.1 This doctrine, in which the human mind becomes formally identical with the object of cognition, was accused of being unintelligible mystification by the ‘New Philosophy’ of the seventeenth century. Leibniz, for example, in the preface to his New Essays, writes scornfully of the Scholastics’ ‘ “intentional species” which travel from objects to us and find their wa...