Philosophisches Jahrbuch

In what follows I critically assess Hegel’s cursory and cryptic statements about the refutation of Spinozism given in the Subjective Logic’s (1816) introductory section “Of the Concept in General”. The statements refer to the first and last...

‘Freedom’ is the motto of Enlightenment. During the period called Classical German Philosophy, philosophers like Kant and Hegel tried to apply the notion of freedom not only to the field of practical, but also of theoretical philosophy....

The success of the natural sciences has led to the widespread view that the course of reality is necessarily determined by natural laws. This view is known to be in tension with the idea that people can act freely and are therefore responsible for...