Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Translations and Abbreviations -- Introduction: Kant and the Fate of Autonomy Reconsidered -- Part 1: Freedom, Autonomy, and Choice: Kant and the Pre-Kantian Tradition -- 1 liberum arbitrium : Kant and the Problem of Willkür -- 2 Transcendental Freedom: Kant on Spontaneity -- 3 Practical Freedom: Kant on Autonomy and Moral Respect -- 4 Individual Freedom: Kant on Choice and Responsibility -- Part 2: Freedom, Determinism, and Imputability -- 5 Freedom and Necessity: Johann August Heinrich Ulrich -- 6 Against Ulrich’s Determinism: Christian Jacob Kraus -- 7 Intelligible Fatalism: Carl Christian Erhard Schmid -- 8 Against Intelligible Fatalism: Karl Leonhard Reinhold (I) -- 9 Excursus. the Incapacity of Freedom -- Does Kant’s Ethics Imply an Intelligible Fatalism? -- Part 3: Freedom, Reason, and Skepticism -- 10 The Deduction of Freedom: Johann Heinrich Abicht -- 11 Skepticism and Freedom: Leonhard Creuzer -- 12 Beyond Intelligible Fatalism and Indifferentism: Friedrich Karl Forberg -- 13 Critique of Mere Choice: Christoph Gottfried Bardili -- 14 The Reflection of Will: Fichte’s Volitional Anti-Skepticism -- 15 Excursus. Reason’s Responsibility -- Kant on Rationalizing -- Part 4: Freedom, Individuality, and Compatibility -- 16 Individuality at Risk: Rehberg’s Critique of Pure Practical Reason -- 17 Freedom as Choice: Karl Leonhard Reinhold (II) -- 18 Against Choice: Maimon’s Reply to Reinhold -- 19 Heautonomy: Schiller’s Aesthetic Compatibilism -- 20 “Will is primal being”: Schelling’s Real Compatibilism -- Conclusion: Revisiting Choice -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book reconstructs the intense early post-Kantian debate on freedom of the will, choice, and moral imputability for the first time. It addresses the following questions: How is freedom of choice possible given the causal predetermination of the world? How can we escape skepticism about freedom of the will? What are the characteristics of moral freedom? Are we free to act immorally, and if so, how exactly? And finally: How can we conceive of our individual freedom as being compatible with nature and society?

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