Freedom on This and the Other Side of Kant Unabridged August 2019 (original) (raw)

represent a tendency to trace the "archaeology" of the notion of freedom either to G.W.F. Hegel's Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts 4 or to Isaiah Berlin's "Two Concepts of Liberty. 5 " Without claiming to be an exhaustive investigation of the discussion of freedom since or prior to Immanuel Kant, this paper proposes, however, that the meaning of freedom since Kant has for all intents and purposes overlooked the tradition of autonomous freedom prior to Kant that stems from Pico della Mirandola and influenced Leibniz, Sulzer, and Tetens-all of whom shaped Kant's understanding of freedom. 1 Many thanks to James Cochrane for the careful reading and helpful suggestions for improving an earlier draft of this paper! All errors, of course, are my mistakes.