The free development of each: studies on freedom, right, and ethics in classical German philosophy

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Introduction -- Moral wealth, merit, and acting from duty -- Kant on practical reason -- The independence of right from ethics -- The moral politician -- Herder and Kant on history: their enlightenment faith -- Leaving consequentialism behind -- Fichte's absolute freedom -- Fichte's intersubjective I -- Fichtean themes in Hegel's dialectic of recognition -- Hegel on responsibility for actions and consequences -- Marx on equality -- Coercion, manipulation, exploitation -- Concluding remarks.;The Free Development of Each collects twelve essays on the history of German philosophy by Allen W. Wood, one of the leading scholars in the field. They explore moral philosophy, politics, society, and history in the works of Kant, Herder, Fichte, Hegel, and Marx, and share the basic theme of freedom, as it appears in morality and in politics. All of the essays have been re-edited and revised for this collection, and five are previously unpublished. They are accompanied by an Introduction which sets out the central, philosophical viewpoint of the volume, and a comprehensive bibliography.