Two Essays on Moral Freedom from the Early Works of Tanabe Hajime
Hajime, Tanabe Morisato, Takeshi Staton, Cody
Hajime, Tanabe
Morisato, Takeshi
Staton, Cody
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ABSTRACTThis article introduces English translations of Tanabe’s two essays entitled “Moral Freedom” and “On Moral Freedom Revisited.” In these essays, Tanabe tries to understand the unity of the contradictory division between freedom and necessity, while remaining truthful to the moral experience. Freedom is ultimately characterized as ideality (or a task) that we ought to realize in reality, while the stage of religion constitutes the ultimate end of such moral struggles. Tanabe does not clearly work out how the continuity of the freedom-necessity discontinuity is possible in these essays. Nevertheless, we can gain insight into the early stages of Tanabe’s practical metaphysics that culminate in his mature works on the philosophy of religion. The translators’ introduction will highlight these points and also provide a brief description of the historical background in which the publication of these texts took place in 1917.
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2016-05-03
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TANDF-10.1080/17570638.2016.1200315
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17570638.2016.1200315
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17570638.2016.1200315
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http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17570638.2016.1200315
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17570638.2016.1200315
ISSN-PRINT-1757-0638
ISSN-ELECT-1757-0646
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10.1080/17570638.2016.1200315
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