A01=Nicolai Hartmann
antinomy
Author_Nicolai Hartmann
autonomy theory
basic
categorial
Category=QD
causal
causal determinism
determinism
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
finalistic
free will debate
freedom
Kantian ethics analysis
law
metaphysical freedom in moral philosophy
moral
moral responsibility
nexus
philosophy of action
Product details
- ISBN 9780415295727
- Weight: 690g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 05 Sep 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This volume is devoted to the thesis that morality is possible only in a world determined throughout, mentally as well as physically, by the law of cause and effect. But as organic life, although deupon mechanical laws, cannot be explained by them, so moral life cannot be explained by physiological and psychological processes. Responsibility, imputability, and the sense of guilt imply that man is free to do otherwise than he actually does. If man is not free in this sense, then his consciousness of responsibility and of guilt is a delusion. He is in fact determined neither by the moral law nor by the laws of nature, but is self-determined.
Nicolai Hartmann, Professor of Philosophy, University of Berlin, translated by Stanton Coit.
