Theorie der praktischen Freiheit

This study offers a detailed systematic comparison of Fichte s and Hegel s philosophies with regard to their conceptions of freedom. It explains and compares the place of practical freedom within the two thinkers overarching systems of ethical, legal, and political philosophy. In the process, it shows not only Hegel s debt to Fichte but also the essential difference between understanding freedom as origin as opposed to result.