Fondazione dell'intera dottrina della scienza

The Foundation of the Entire Doctrine of Science (1794-95), a major and innovative work, speaks to thought but is ultimately intended to account for the striving for freedom in the intersubjective experience of the world. The Wissenschaftslehre embraces the whole operation of the human mind, whether it is expressed in necessary action or in free action. But it presents the former as determinate and the latter as indeterminate. The supreme explanatory principle that grounds necessary actions is the same faculty of the mind to determine itself to action in general, absolutely without action. That is, it is the same faculty of acting in absolute freedom.