ABSTRACT
This chapter continues with the exposition of Fichte’s theory of freedom with a special emphasis on its relation to sensible rational individuals. It explains the role Fichte assigns to culture in acquisition of freedom (I-hood and rationality). From a choice selection of texts from the Contribution, the Natural Right, and the System of Ethics, it is argued that free will and the articulated body are a product of free cultivation as well as of natural organization. The chapter then offers an interpretation of the controversial distinction between formal and material freedom as it is drawn in the System of Ethics. It concludes by considering the account of the account of an empirical rational being and the account of original evil it entails.
