Kantovo poimanje slobode
Kant's Concept of Freedom

Summary/Abstract: In Kant's philosophy the concept of freedom appears for the first time in the history of philosophy not only as one of the problems of ethics or political philosophy that every philosophical system must provide for, but as the very' problem of the new idea of man as a practico-rational being. The »Critique of Pure Reason« presents the essence, the anthropological problem of Kant’s concept of freedom. The man who is free is able to start a situation out of himself, he is able to: a) transfer his own determination to a situation (or to create such a situation); b) he has no other determination but the determination of his own moral law (which is based on »freedom as a characteristic of will«), and therefore also; c) a man who influences the world as his own world according to his own essence. Regardless of all the possible meanings given in Kant's own works and in later interpretations (even in that of Marx and Engels though theirs is already shifting the ground of all former interpretations) the concept of freedom is just another name for the »gnoseological revolution«, the schoolmaster's label for Kant's philosophy.

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