‎WATSON Gary (ed.)‎
‎Free will‎

‎Om Afsindighed og Tilregnelse, et Bidrag til Psychologien og Retslæren. - [INITIATING THE ""HOWITZ-DISPUTE"" ON FREE WILL - PRESENTATION-COPY FOR GRUNDTVIG]‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, 1824. Small 8vo. Original paper covered boards. Remains of gilt title-plabel to spine. Spine worn and corners bumped. Internally brownspotted. (4), VIII, 117"" (1) pp. ‎

‎Magnificent presentation-copy - for Grundtvig - of the scarce first edition of Howitz' most important philosophical work. With his first work of 1824, ""Om Afsindighed og Tilregnelse..."" Howitz initiated the seminal 19th century Danish discussion on free will, known as the ""Howitz-dispute"". Inscribed to front free end-paper: ""Til / Hr. Pastor N. F. S. Grundtvig / Ærbødigst / fra / Forfatteren"" (i.e. ""For / Mr. Pastor N. F. S. Grundtvig / most respectfully / from / the author"". The Danish pastor Nicolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig (1783-1872) is arguably, together with Kierkegaard (and perhaps Hans Christian Andersen) the most influential Danish author of all time. He holds a unique position in Danish cultural history, profoundly forming Danish society, the national spirit of which is still widely Grundtvigian. Danish national institutions are widely based on Grundtivg's ideals, and the new form of nationalism that his ideas gave rise to in the last half of the 19th century still permeates Danish society and Danish national understanding. In this foundational work ""On Madness and Ascribing Responsibility:"", Howitz claimed that those learned in the law (at that time led by Oersted) did not understand the relationship between the normal rational state of man and the mad state, and he thus initiated a discussion about the legal term of imputability, behind which he saw Kant's notion of liberty. With the thoughts of Hume, Howitz sets out to refute Kant's notion of human free will. He equals the relationship between motivation and act with the relationship between cause and effect, and thus, according to Howits, there can be no human act without cause. Like Hume, Howitz did not understand this natural necessity as being in opposition to freedom.""The so-called “Howitz-dispute,” which arose in Copenhagen in the second half of the 1820s, represents a sort of tear in a monotonous and uniform ideological fabric, whose consequences are destined to last until the middle of the century and ideally join together with the strongest continental currents. The dispute takes its name from the Danish professor of forensic medicine, Frantz Gotthard Howitz (1789-1826), who wrote in 1824 the treatise On Madness and Ascribing Responsibility: A Contribution on Psychology and Jurisprudence, in which he considered a problem to which the entire post-revolutionary civil society was looking for a fair solution, namely, the problematic relationship between madness and the ascription of responsibility. The treatise immediately evoked a number of critical reactions, since the author “accused” the Danish law of the time of being based on Kant’s view of morality. Howitz’s treatise has the merit of originality not only because, from a chronological point of view, it comes before many of the most important writings on the theme of madness and imputability (and its author is thoroughly acquainted with the inter-national scientific literature on mental illnesses), but also because it shows how at the root of the Danish clinical and legal reasoning of the time, there was the Kantian moral doctrine."" (Ingrid Basso: On Madness and Free Will: a Kantian Debate in Denmark in the First Half of 19th Century). ‎

‎Freedom and Resentment. Annual Philosophical Lecture, Henriette Hertz Trust, British Academy, 1962. - [FOUNDING MODERN FREE-WILL DEBATES]‎

‎London, Oxford University Press, 1962. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Offprint from ""The Proceedings of the British Academy"", Volume XLVIII. Minor wear to extremities, internally with light marginal annotations in pencil, otherwise fine. Pp. (2), 187-211.‎

‎First printing, in the scarce offprint, of Strawson's famous landmark essay, in which he argues that free-will issues are crucially about the conditions required to hold persons responsible for their actions and that responsibility is ""constituted by persons adopting certain ""reactive attitudes"" towards themselves and others"". The essay is now regarded a classic and ""the seminal essay of modern free-will debates"". (Kane The Oxford Handbook of Free Will, P. 15).""In his landmark essay, 'Freedom and Resentment,' P. F. Strawson (1962) sets out to adjudicate the dispute between those compatibilists who hold a consequentialist view of responsibility and those incompatibilists who hold the merit-based view. Both are wrong, Strawson believes, because they distort the concept of moral responsibility by sharing the prevailing assumption sketched above - the assumption that holding persons responsible rests upon a theoretical judgment of their being responsible. According to Strawson, the attitudes expressed in holding persons morally responsible are varieties of a wide range of attitudes deriving from our participation in personal relationships, e.g., resentment, indignation, hurt feelings, anger, gratitude, reciprocal love, and forgiveness."" (SEP).‎

‎"Bergson, A. Time and Free Will Translation by S. I. Hesse; with attachment arti"‎

‎"Bergson, A. Time and Free Will Translation by S. I. Hesse; with attachment article An introduction to metaphysics, translated by Margarita Grunwald./Bergson, A. Vremya i svoboda voli perevod S.I. Gessena; s prilozheniem stati Vvedenie v metafiziku, perevod Margarity Gryunvald. Bergson, A. Time and Free Will Translation by S. I. Hessen; with the appendix of the article Introduction to Metaphysics, Translation by Margarita Grunwald. Moscow:; t-print by A. I. Mamontov, 1910. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUbd-9f52f2e5bba6963."‎

‎Svoboda voli i osnovy morali. In Russian /Free will and the foundations of mo...‎

‎Short description: In Russian. Schopenhauer, Arthur. Free will and fundamentals of morality. A.S. Suvorin. Svoboda voli i osnovy morali. In Russian /Free will and the foundations of morality. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU5282959‎

‎Svoboda voli i osnovy morali. In Russian /Free will and the foundations of mo...‎

‎Short description: In Russian. Schopenhauer, Arthur. Free will and fundamentals of morality. A.S. Suvorin. Svoboda voli i osnovy morali. In Russian /Free will and the foundations of morality. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU5214955‎