ABSTRACT
The introduction provides some basic biographical background information of Fichte and his philosophical accomplishments. It explains the main argumentative approach and limited scope of the book. What makes Fichte challenging and fascinating as a free will theorist is precisely his profound commitment to rationalist and determinist principle that nothing is without a necessitating ground. The book will present Fichte’s system as a rationalism which is based on the Kant’s original concept of pure practical reason. What is distinctive about his “practical rationalism” is its replacement of the rationalist system of natural necessitating grounds by one of moral necessitating ground, of which the predestination of all our free actions is a part. By means of it, Fichte ventures to bring together freedom and predetermination in a way that challenges our assumption about their mutual exclusivity.
