Outputs (2)

Is autonomy sufficient for freedom (2023)
Book Chapter
Alderwick, C. (2023). Is autonomy sufficient for freedom. In J. Saunders (Ed.), Freedom After Kant. Bloomsbury Publishing

In this chapter I show that the Kantian notion of autonomy, understood as rational self-determination, collapses when it is taken up in a system which posits nature as rationally structured, such as those we find in the early post-Kantian idealists .... Read More about Is autonomy sufficient for freedom.

Schelling on the nature of freedom and the freedom of nature: The role of the naturphilosophie in the freiheitsschrift (2022)
Book Chapter
Alderwick, C. (2023). Schelling on the nature of freedom and the freedom of nature: The role of the naturphilosophie in the freiheitsschrift. In Life, Organisms, and Human Nature New Perspectives on Classical German Philosophy (159-176). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41558-6

This chapter focuses on Schelling’s philosophy of nature and shows that it contains an original theory of freedom. I argue that human freedom is a potentiated form of a kind of freedom that can already be found in organic life: my claim is that human... Read More about Schelling on the nature of freedom and the freedom of nature: The role of the naturphilosophie in the freiheitsschrift.