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This volume collects thirteen original essays that address the
concept of will in Classical German Philosophy from Kant to
Schopenhauer. During this short, but prolific period, the concept
of will underwent various transformations. While Kant identifies
the will with pure practical reason, Fichte introduces, in the wake
of Reinhold, an originally biological concept of drive into his
ethical theory, thereby expanding on the Kantian notion of the
will. Schelling, Hegel, and Schopenhauer take a step further and
conceive the will either as a primal being (Schelling), as a
socio-ontological entity (Hegel), or as a blindly striving,
non-rational force (Schopenhauer). Thus, the history of the will is
marked by a complex set of tensions between rational and
non-rational aspects of practical volition. The book outlines these
transformations from a historical and systematic point of view. It
offers an overview of the most important theories of the will by
the major figures of Classical German Philosophy, but also includes
interpretations of conceptions developed by lesser-studied
philosophers such as Maimon, Jacobi, Reinhold, and Bouterwek.
This volume gathers a collection of fourteen original articles
discussing the concept of drive in classical German philosophy. Its
aim is to offer a comprehensive historical overview of the concept
of drive at the turn of the 19th century and to discuss it both
historically and systematically. From the 18th century onward, the
concept of drive started to play an important role in emerging
disciplines such as biology, anthropology, and psychology. In these
fields, the concept of drive was used to describe the inner forces
of organic nature, or, more particularly, human urges and desires.
But it was in the period of classical German philosophy that this
concept developed into an important philosophical concept crucial
to Kant's and post-Kantian idealistic systems. Reflecting the
complexity of this concept, the volume first discusses historical
sources of drive theories in Leibniz, Reimarus, and Blumenbach.
Afterwards, the volume presents the philosophical accounts of
drives in Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel, and also gives a
systematic overview of other important drive theories that were
formed around 1800 by Herder, Goethe, Jacobi, Novalis, Reinhold,
Schiller, and Schopenhauer.
This volume gathers a collection of fourteen original articles
discussing the concept of drive in classical German philosophy. Its
aim is to offer a comprehensive historical overview of the concept
of drive at the turn of the 19th century and to discuss it both
historically and systematically. From the 18th century onward, the
concept of drive started to play an important role in emerging
disciplines such as biology, anthropology, and psychology. In these
fields, the concept of drive was used to describe the inner forces
of organic nature, or, more particularly, human urges and desires.
But it was in the period of classical German philosophy that this
concept developed into an important philosophical concept crucial
to Kant's and post-Kantian idealistic systems. Reflecting the
complexity of this concept, the volume first discusses historical
sources of drive theories in Leibniz, Reimarus, and Blumenbach.
Afterwards, the volume presents the philosophical accounts of
drives in Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel, and also gives a
systematic overview of other important drive theories that were
formed around 1800 by Herder, Goethe, Jacobi, Novalis, Reinhold,
Schiller, and Schopenhauer.
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