Determined Quote by Allen W. Wood

“Fichte takes an I or free will to be not a thing or being but an act which is not undetermined but self-determined, in accordance with reasons or norms rationally self-given.” quote by Allen W. Wood — Download Open image

“Fichte takes an I or free will to be not a thing or being but an act which is not undetermined but self-determined, in accordance with reasons or norms rationally self-given.”

Allen W. Wood

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