HIGHER NECESSITY: SCHELLING'S VOLITIONAL COMPATIBILISM

Noller, J. (2020): HIGHER NECESSITY: SCHELLING'S VOLITIONAL COMPATIBILISM. In: Idealistic Studies, Bd. 50, Nr. 1: S. 33-49

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze Schelling's compatibilist account of freedom of the will particularly in his Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (1809). I shall argue that against Kant's transcendental compatibilism Schelling proposes a "volitional compatibilism," according to which the free will emerges out of nature and is not identical to practical reason as Kant claims. Finally, I will relate Schelling's volitional compatibilism to more recent accounts of free will in order to better understand what he means by his concept of a "higher necessity."

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Evangelische Theologie
• Themengebiete: 200 Religion > 200 Religion
• ISSN: 0046-8541
• Sprache: Englisch