System and Freedom in Kant and Fichte

249 Pages·2022·3.191 MB·English

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System and Freedom in Kant
and Fichte
In both Kant’s and Fichte’s thought, system and freedom are intimately
correlated and can be said to define the whole of their respective
philosophies. Therefore, speaking of system and freedom with regard
to Kant and Fichte is, on the one hand, to consider the methodically
developed entirety of their philosophies and, on the other, to go to the
very heart of their ways of thinking. The essays in this volume explore
both Kant’s and Fichte’s proposals how to integrate freedom into a
system of thought.
System and Freedom in Kant and Fichte will be of interest to scholars
and advanced students working on Kant, modern philosophy, and
German Studies.
Giovanni Pietro Basile is currently Associate Professor in the Philosophy
Department of Boston College. After completing studies in physics,
theology, and philosophy, he earned his PhD in Philosophy at the
LMU Munich, where he also received the German Habilitation. He is a
member of the Reviewers Panel of the journals Gregorianum and Kant-
Studien. Among his main publications are two books—Transcendance et
finitude. La synthèse transcendantale dans la Critique de la raison pure
de Kant (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2005) and Kants Opus postumum und
seine Rezeption (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2013)—as well as several
articles on Kant, Karl Jaspers and Paul Ricœur.
Ansgar Lyssy is currently Researcher at the University of Heidelberg,
working on a project on causality in Hegel, funded by a grant from
the Thyssen Foundation. In 2020, he finished his Habilitationsschrift
at LMU Munich, a yet unpublished monograph titled Humankind
and Humanity in Kant. This research was funded by a research grant
from the German Research Foundation. Notable publications include
Kausalität und Teleologie bei G. W. Leibniz, Stuttgart: Franz-Steiner
(Studia Leibnitiana, Special Issue No. 48), 2016, three anthologies on
Kant and the philosophy of the eighteenth century, and several papers on
Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, and other related thinkers.
Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy
Hume on Art, Emotions, and Superstition
A Critical Study of the Four Dissertations
Amyas Merivale
A Guide to Kant’s Psychologism
via Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Wittgenstein
Wayne Waxman
Kant and the Continental Tradition
Sensibility, Nature, and Religion
Edited by Sorin Baiasu and Alberto Vanzo
Beyond Autonomy in Eighteenth-Century British and German
Aesthetics
Edited by Karl Axelsson, Camilla Flodin, and Mattias Pirholt
Kant’s Critical Epistemology
Why Epistemology Must Consider Judgment First
Kenneth R. Westphal
The Experiential Turn in Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy
Edited by Karin de Boer and Tinca Prunea-Brettonet
Human Dignity and the Kingdom of Ends
Kantian Perspectives and Practical Applications
Edited by Jan-Willem van der Rijt and Adam Cureton
System and Freedom in Kant and Fichte
Edited by Giovanni Pietro Basile and Ansgar Lyssy
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System and Freedom in Kant
and Fichte
Edited by Giovanni Pietro Basile
and Ansgar Lyssy
Festschrift in honor of Günter Zöller
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Contents
Preface vii
List of Figures ix
List of Citations and Abbreviations x
List of Contributors xiii
Introduction 1
1 The Identity of Reason 9
STEPHEN ENGSTROM
2 Lichtenberg’s ‘Es denkt’ versus Kant’s ‘Ich denke’ 31
PATRICIA KITCHER
3 Modal Concepts in Kant’s Transcendental Discourse 50
CLAUDE PICHÉ
4 Can Practical Reason Be Artificial? 71
DIETER SCHÖNECKER
5 “The Eye of True Philosophy”: On the Relationship
Between Kant’s Anthropology and His Critical Philosophy 86
ROBERT B. LOUDEN
6 Kant am Pregelflusse: Site and Systemicity in the Preface
to the Anthropology 103
SUSAN M. SHELL
7 Kant’s Philosophy of Religion—A Provocation to the
Historical Religions 135
BERND DÖRFLINGER
vi Contents
8 Hume and Kant on Utility, Freedom, and Justice 147
PAUL GUYER
9 Reading Fichte Today. The Prospect of a Transcendental
Philosophy 166
MARCO IVALDO
10 Fichte’s Original Presentation of the Foundational
Principles of the Wissenschaftslehre: The Question
of Method 178
MARINA F. BYKOVA
11 The Idea of Universal Monarchy in Fichte’s Practical
Philosophy 206
DAVID JAMES
Index 227
Preface
This book is designed to be a Festschrift for Günter Zöller, who we, the
editors as well as the contributors, would like to honor for his considera-
ble philosophical work, and especially for his numerous and fundamental
contributions to the study of Kant and Fichte. As the notions of ‘system’
and ‘freedom’ take up center stage of his research,1 they have been chosen
as the threads that guide this volume.
Günter Zöller worked first at the University of Iowa, and then for
over 20 years at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, from
which he retired in 2020. He has furthered the cause of philosophy not
only with his numerous and influential writings but also with his help-
ful, patient, and insightful contributions to countless live discussions in
which he has participated, with his collegiality, and with the support that
he has offered to his students and friends.2
This book contains 11 papers, which all engage, directly or indirectly,
with the work of Zöller. Originally, this book was designed to contain sig-
nificantly more papers and was aimed for a much earlier publication, but
in 2020 the Covid pandemic began, and the various lockdowns disrupted
our work as editors and presumably also that of the contributors. Sev-
eral authors had to drop out and could not fully develop their papers in
time. We are grateful to all contributors who have powered through these
difficult times with first-class research. We would also like to thank our
editor at Routledge, Andrew Weckenmann, and his assistant, Alexandra
Simmons, for their support and their patience. Ansgar Lyssy would also
like to thank the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Thyssen
Foundation, which have both funded his research while this book was
developed, and hence have both contributed to making this volume pos-
sible. Editors’ thanks also go to Dillon Reihill for his assistance in proof-
reading and Robert McQueen for the creation of the index.
Notes
1. See Zöller (1998, 2001, 2017), for example.
2. A comprehensive bibliography of Zöller’s writings up to the year 2019 as well
as a short overview over relevant biographical dates can be found in Kisner/
Basile/Lyssy/Weiss (2019).
viii Preface
References
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(2019). Das Selbst und die Welt—Denken, Handeln und Hoffen in der Klas-
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Zöller, Günter (1998). Fichte’s Transcendental Philosophy: The Original Duplic-
ity of Intelligence and Will. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Zöller, Günter (2001). “Die Seele des Systems: Systembegriff und Begriffssystem
in Kants Transzendentalphilosophie.” In Hans Friedrich Fulda und Jürgen
Stolzenberg (eds.), Architektonik und System in der Philosophie Kants. Ham-
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Zöller, Günter (2017). “Weder Methode noch Disziplin. Zum historisch-
systematischen Ort transzendentalen Philosophierens.” In Marco Ivaldo, Hans
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ndentalphilosophie. Das philosophische Vermächtnis Reinhard Lauths. Würz-
burg: Königshausen & Neumann, 167–183.
Figures
6.1 Map of Königsberg 133
6.2 Detail from 1808 map of Königsberg 134