Abstract

Among the most important controversies about the form and content of the table of the categories of freedom are the questions, first, what the table of the categories of freedom is about; second, if the categories of freedom have moral content or if they can be morally indifferent; and third, if the categories of freedom are a priori unconditioned or a posteriori conditioned concepts. I will argue, first, that the categories of freedom thematize particular aspects of determining grounds of human actions and man's voluntary treatment of these determining grounds. Second, they are determining grounds of human actions "with respect to the concepts of the good and evil" (CprR 5:66.17-18), that is, they do have good or evil moral content and cannot be morally indifferent. And third, all categories of freedom thematize aspects of determining grounds of human actions under empirical conditions in their relation to the unconditioned: the practical law (which is itself not part of the table of the categories of freedom) and the generation of moral contents (the concepts of good and evil which are derived from the practical law).