Philosophie ohne Beynamen

From 1789 on, Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757-1823) founded the post-Kantian system philosophy continued by Fichte, Schelling and Hegel, and in later years he worked as a linguistic-philosophical critic of speculative idealism. His program of a "philosophy without a byname", which he established after Kant's critique of reason and which remains significant for his further path of thought, comprises both the foundations of a system of theoretical and practical knowledge and reflections on the limits of system-oriented thinking, which arise from the need for freedom and faith. In addition, it is characterized by a profiled historical and enlightenment thrust: Philosophy is to be understood historically, as a perfection of its previous forms and manifestations; philosophy has to connect with the common sense and thereby become practical.

The contributions of the present volume, which were produced in the context of the 2nd International Reinhold Conference held at the University of Lucerne from March 18 to 21, 2002, provide a broad and representative overview of the diverse aspects of Reinhold's philosophy without epithets. In a first thematic focus, comments are made on questions of Reinhold's grounding of a system of knowledge from a first principle as well as on his monistic system idea, which is concerned with the mediation of faith and knowledge. A second set of contributions focuses on a discussion of Reinhold's understanding of moral freedom, which is characterized by the integration of a radical freedom of the will with Kantian freedom as self-legislation. In a third section, the hitherto little-noticed fact that Reinhold, with his idiosyncratic further development of Kant's critique of reason, also became the founder of the "historical turn" within the post-Kantian current of thought is brought up. The volume concludes with two contributions by.