Philosophisches Jahrbuch

This essay explores the significance of Martin Heidegger’s later work for a new understanding of freedom and responsibility. It argues that in his later thinking, Heidegger turns toward a form of “mindful thinking” characterized by a...

Spinoza is still criticized today as a determinist who denies human freedom. The last two parts of his Ethics deal with human bondage and freedom. Thus, freedom is an important topic for him. He regarded freedom of will and decision as an illusion....

One of the most important philosophical influences that Western culture has inherited from antiquity is the fact that we distinguish, in a metaphorical way, between a mental ‘inner world’ and a physical ‘outer world’. As is well known, the...

This article examines Kant’s direct proof for transcendental idealism in the Transcendental Aesthetic against the background of Henry Allison’s ‘neglected alternative’ and Trendelenburg’s ‘gap’. Contrary to the usual equation of these...

Our world is shaken by numerous crises. Humanity has taken seriously the mandate given in the Book of Genesis to exercise power over the earth and is now struggling with the consequences of its actions. However, little attention is paid to the...

Wittgenstein’s private language argument is generally regarded as a refutation of privacy and thus as a refutation of a Cartesian model of personality, according to which there is an Ego that is immediately certain of itself. Wittgenstein...