freedom
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Invisible freedom, and why we may need it that way – 9th week of Kant
I ask instead from what our cognition of the unconditionally practical starts, whether from freedom or from the practical law. It cannot start from freedom, for we can neither be immediately conscious of this, since the first concept of it is negative, nor can we conclude to it from experience, since experience lets us cognize…
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How the world must be (or why two-standpoints may be a dud) – 2nd week of Kant
Now, if one takes the determinations of the existence of things in time for determinations of things in themselves (which is the most usual way of representing them), then the necessity in the causal relation can in no way be united with freedom; instead they are opposed to each other as contradictory. For, from the…
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Responsibility, despite all? – 1st week of Kant
[O]ne may take a voluntary action, e.g. a malicious lie, through which a person has brought about a certain confusion in society; and one may first investigate its moving causes, through which it arose, judging on that basis how the lie and its consequences could be imputed to the person. […] Now even if one…
Álvaro Rodríguez-González Barredo 