The Free Development of Each

Studies on Freedom, Right, and Ethics in Classical German Philosophy

Allen W. Wood

Lucid expositions of key thinkers in the history of German philosophy
Features five previously unpublished essays
Engages with topics in moral and political philosophy that are of current interest

The Free Development of Each

Studies on Freedom, Right, and Ethics in Classical German Philosophy

Allen W. Wood

Description

The Free Development of Each collects twelve essays on the history of German philosophy by Allen W. Wood, one of the leading scholars in the field. They explore moral philosophy, politics, society, and history in the works of Kant, Herder, Fichte, Hegel, and Marx, and share the basic theme of freedom, as it appears in morality and in politics.
All of the essays have been re-edited and revised for this collection, and five are previously unpublished. They are accompanied by an Introduction which sets out the central, philosophical viewpoint of the volume, and a comprehensive bibliography.

The Free Development of Each

Studies on Freedom, Right, and Ethics in Classical German Philosophy

Allen W. Wood

Introduction
1. Moral Worth, Merit, and Acting from Duty
2. Kant on Practical Reason
3. The Independence of Right from Ethics
4. The Moral Politician
5. Herder and Kant on History: Their Enlightenment Faith
6. Leaving Consequentialism Behind
7. Fichte's Absolute Freedom
8. Fichte's Intersubjective I
9. Fichtean Themes in Hegel's Dialectic of Recognition
10. Hegel on Responsibility for Actions and Consequences
11. Marx on Equality
12. Coercion, manipulation, exploitation
Bibliography
Index

The Free Development of Each

Studies on Freedom, Right, and Ethics in Classical German Philosophy

Allen W. Wood

Author Information

Allen W. Wood is Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor emeritus at Stanford University. He studied for his PhD at Yale University, and has held regular professorships at Cornell University and Yale University, and visiting appointments at the University of Michigan, University of California at San Diego, and Oxford University, where he was Isaiah Berlin Visiting Professor in 2005. He has served as editor of Philosophical Review, between 1974 and 1995, and is on the editorial boards of Kant-Studien, Journal of the History of Philosophy, The Owl of Minerva, Kantian Review, Ethics, Journal of Moral Philosophy.