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Kant's Theory of Freedom Henry E. Allison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

While Kant's ethics, particularly as they are presented in his most famous and well-read ethical work, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, are generally thought to be so strictly categorical that the term 'Kantian' is nearly a byword for 'categoricalist' and Kantian deontology dominates most Therefore he locates it instead in human freedom, in the choosing of our fundamental moral maxim. An argument still frequently raised against Kant's theory of freedom goes as follows: Kant seems to have two conceptions of freedom, which may be termed, following Sidgwick, the rational and the neutral conception. The following books by Robert Paul Wolff are available on Amazon.com as e-books: KANT'S THEORY OF MENTAL ACTIVITY, THE AUTONOMY OF REASON, UNDERSTANDING MARX, UNDERSTANDING RAWLS, THE POVERTY OF . Progressive Kantians extrapolate upon this, and Kant's definition of freedom and autonomy (see his Doctrine of Right), to justify a redistributionist state. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. The Capacity for Duty: Kant's Teleological Theory of Virtue. Kant defines moral freedom as giving oneself the laws that determine one's actions. Finally, the notion of what is most beautiful or appealing to the soul includes freedom in another way. Kant struggles with the concepts of freedom in the context of his theory on the dialectical progress of history and the role of the church and state in relation to the individual's right to reason. Benedict de Spinoza, 1975, rev. First to propose the Rigorism Thesis and Incorporation Thesis, and the propensity to evil as an intelligible act. Here it is the feeling of freedom as an emotion being connected to the feeling of beauty.