{"id":4371,"date":"2024-06-01T05:10:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T03:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/?p=4371"},"modified":"2026-08-24T10:29:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T08:29:49","slug":"29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/29\/","title":{"rendered":"29"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That a determinate being should in general be the <em>determinate being of the free will<\/em> \u2013 this is <em>right<\/em>. Right is thus, in general, freedom, as Idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Kantian definition (see Kant&#8217;s Doctrine of Right, Introduction \u2013 cf. <em>Metaphysics of Morals, Part I: Metaphysical First Principles of the Doctrine of Right<\/em>, Introduction to the Doctrine of Right, \u00a7 B) \u2013 and one more generally adopted as well \u2013 according to which the chief element is the <em>limitation<\/em> of my freedom or <em>arbitrary will<\/em> such that it may coexist with the arbitrary will of everyone else in accordance with a universal law \u2013 this definition contains, on the one hand, only a <em>negative<\/em> determination, that of limitation, while on the other hand its positive element, the universal or so-called law of reason, the correspondence of the arbitrary will of the one with that of the other, amounts merely to the familiar formal identity and the principle of non-contradiction. This definition of right embodies the view that has been widespread chiefly since <em>Rousseau<\/em>, according to which it is not the will as rational, existing in and for itself, nor spirit as <em>true<\/em> spirit, but rather the will of the <em>particular<\/em> individual, in his own distinctive arbitrariness, that is supposed to be the substantial basis and the primary thing. Once this principle is adopted, the rational can of course appear only as a limitation upon this freedom, and not as something immanently rational, but only as an external, formal universal. That view is as devoid of all speculative thought, and as thoroughly rejected by the philosophical concept, as it has been productive \u2013 both in people&#8217;s minds and in actuality \u2013 of appearances whose dreadfulness finds its only parallel in the shallowness of the thoughts on which they were founded.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That a determinate being should in general be the determinate being of the free will \u2013 this is right. Right is thus, in general, freedom, as Idea. The Kantian definition (see Kant&#8217;s Doctrine of Right, Introduction \u2013 cf. Metaphysics of Morals, Part I: Metaphysical First Principles of the Doctrine of Right, Introduction to the Doctrine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,13],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-4371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paragraph-en","category-uncategorized","tag-concept"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4653,"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371\/revisions\/4653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}