In my dissertation I argue that Kant, often taken to be a classical source of the opposition of freedom and feeling, is in fact one of the most insightful guides toward a coherent non-dualistic view of this relationship. Specifically, I demonstrate that implicit in Kant’s account of the feeling of moral respect is the remarkable idea that human emotion is a unique mode of self-consciousness—self-revelation and self-understanding--constitutive of practical agency, and therefore of freedom. Click here for an overview of my dissertation project.

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