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The hidden connection between Kant and scholasticism

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K00019
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 01010:Philosophy and ethics-related
Research InstitutionKeio University

Principal Investigator

ERTL WOLFGANG  慶應義塾大学, 文学部(三田), 教授 (30407150)

Project Period (FY) 2018-04-01 – 2024-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2023)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
KeywordsFree Will / Kant / Transcendental Idealism / Scholasticism / Transcendental idealism / Modern Philosophy / Things in Themselves / Philosophical Theology / Molinism / Things in themselves / Philosophy of Religion / Peace Theory / Postulates / Metaphysics / Philosophical theology / Immanuel Kant
Outline of Final Research Achievements

The overall aim of this project has been to highlight a so-far neglected connection in the history of philosophy, since Kant's scholastic predecessors are usually seen as representatives of precisely the kind of dogmatic philosophy which Kant's critical project was supposed to overcome.
The research conducted in this project has revealed that there is a deep similarity in the approach to human free will in Luis de Molina and Kant. Kant's core concept by means of which he tries to establish the compatibility of human free will and natural causal determinism can be interpreted in terms of Molina's famous conception of counterfactuals of freedom. Counterfactuals of freedom indicate how a free agent would act in a fully specified possible situation, and an intelligible character can be said to consist of the totality of all true counterfactuals about an individual free will.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

この計画は、特に思想史と哲学史についての、根強く広く保持されている見解の重要な修正を提供することに貢献しました。 確立された意見に疑問を投げかける例です。また、現代哲学だけでなく近代性全般における重要人物の一人の再評価も行っています。
このプロジェクトの目的は、たとえそれがかなり野心的で自慢に聞こえるかもしれないとしても、カントの哲学のより説得力のある理解を獲得することです。このような理解は、哲学の主要な代表者の一人についての正確な全体像を提供するだけでなく、哲学史の正確な全体像を提供するためにも非常に重要です。

Report

(7 results)
  • 2023 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2022 Research-status Report
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (19 results)

All 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018

All Journal Article (4 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Peer Reviewed: 4 results) Presentation (13 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 5 results,  Invited: 8 results) Book (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] Free Will, Foreknowledge, and Creation2023

    • Author(s)
      Ertl Wolfgang
    • Journal Title

      Kantian Review

      Volume: 28 Issue: 4 Pages: 497-518

    • DOI

      10.1017/s1369415423000444

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Marco Sgarbi: Kant and Aristotle. Epistemology, Logic, and Method2022

    • Author(s)
      Ertl, Wolfgang
    • Journal Title

      Kantian Review

      Volume: 27 Issue: 1 Pages: 155-159

    • DOI

      10.1017/s1369415421000650

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Marco Sgarbi: Kant and Aristotle. Epistemology, Logic, and Method2022

    • Author(s)
      Ertl, Wolfgang
    • Journal Title

      Japanische Kant-Studien

      Volume: 22 Pages: 124-127

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Preparing the Ground for Kant’s Highest Good in the World2021

    • Author(s)
      Ertl, Wolfgang
    • Journal Title

      Philosophia

      Volume: - Issue: 5 Pages: 1837-1852

    • DOI

      10.1007/s11406-021-00330-w

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] Kants Molinismus im Ueberblick2023

    • Author(s)
      Ertl, Wolfgang
    • Organizer
      Moral, Geschichte, Religion: Kants Religionsphilosophie als Angebot und Herausforderung an die Gegenwart
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Divine Ideas and the Kant's Distinction: Augmenting the metaphysical two-aspects view2023

    • Author(s)
      Wolfgang Ertl
    • Organizer
      History of Philosophy Roundtable, University of California, San Diego
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Free Will, Foreknowledge, and Creation: Further Explorations of Kant's Molinism2023

    • Author(s)
      Wolfgang Ertl
    • Organizer
      Central Meeting of the American Philosophical Association
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Kant's Molinism, Part 12022

    • Author(s)
      Wolfgang Ertl
    • Organizer
      Princeton University
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Kants Molinism, Part 22022

    • Author(s)
      Wolfgang Ertl
    • Organizer
      Princeton University
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Kant on the Highest Good2022

    • Author(s)
      Wolfgang Ertl
    • Organizer
      Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion Meeting
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Kant's Molinism: A Clarification2021

    • Author(s)
      Ertl, Wolfgang
    • Organizer
      46th Annual Conference of the Japan Kant Society
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Facets of Kant's Metaphysics of Freedom2021

    • Author(s)
      Ertl, Wolfgang
    • Organizer
      80th Annual Conference of the Philosophical Association of Japan
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Happiness, Holiness and the Transition to Religion. Reflections on Kant’s Second Postulate of Pure Practical Reason2021

    • Author(s)
      Wolfgang Ertl
    • Organizer
      Guest lecture at University of Athens, Greece
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] “Old Lampe needs to have a God” Re-reading Heinrich Heine after the Publication of "Kant: A Biography" in Japanese2021

    • Author(s)
      Wolfgang Ertl
    • Organizer
      Tokyo Kant Research Group 339th Meeting (Online)
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Varieties of Noumena - The Divine Intellect and the Distinction of Things in Themselves and Appearances2019

    • Author(s)
      Wolfgang Ertl
    • Organizer
      13th International Kant Conference, Oslo
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Kant's Molinism and the Guarantee of Perpetual Peace2019

    • Author(s)
      Wolfgang Ertl
    • Organizer
      2018-19 Annual Meeting Pacific Study Group North American Kant Society, University of California at San Diego
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Ludewig Molina and Kant’s Libertarian Compatibilism2019

    • Author(s)
      Wolfgang Ertl
    • Organizer
      2nd International Kant Summer School, The Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Book] The Guarantee of Perpetual Peace2020

    • Author(s)
      Wolfgang Ertl
    • Total Pages
      80
    • Publisher
      Cambridge University Press
    • ISBN
      9781108438834
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Book] "The Guarantee of Perpetual Peace in Kant: Remarks on the Relationship Between Providence and Nature" In Natur und Freiheit: Akten des XII. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses2018

    • Author(s)
      Ertl Wolfgang. Ed. by Waibel, Violetta L. / Ruffing, Margit / Wagner, David
    • Total Pages
      3940
    • Publisher
      De Gruyter
    • ISBN
      9783110467888
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report

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Published: 2018-04-23   Modified: 2025-01-30  

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