Hegel's Philosophy of Physics and Kant's Noumena

Abstract

Philosophy must … assume that no true contradiction will be found between freedom and natural necessity in the same human actions, for it cannot give up the idea of nature any more than that of freedom.1 Opening RemarksThe hallmark of Kant's idea of freedom is illuminated here: neither freedom nor necessity are notions we can sacrifice. On the one hand, the self as conceived scientifically is such that it occurs in accordance with natural laws. However, on the other hand, the self seems, in its normative output, to transcend these laws; we can conceive of it as an autonomous…