Ertl, Wolfgang

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Affiliation

Faculty of Letters, Department of Humanities and Social Science (Philosophy) (Mita)

Position

Professor

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Career 【 Display / hide 】

  • 1997.11
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    2005.03

    Erlangen University, Germany, Department of Philosophy, Wissenschaftlicher Assistent and Wissenschaftlicher Oberassistent

  • 2000.10
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    2001.03

    University College, London, Centre for Politics, Law and Society, academic visitor

  • 2012.04
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    2012.08

    Humboldt University Berlin, Germany, Department of Philosophy, visiting scholar

  • 2012.09
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    2012.12

    St Andrews University, UK, Department of Moral Philosophy, visiting fellow

  • 2022.10
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    2022.11

    Princeton University, Project in Philosophy and Religion, visiting fellow

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Academic Background 【 Display / hide 】

  • 1986.10
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    1992.09

    Erlangen-Nuremberg University, Faculty of Philosophy

    Germany, Graduate School, Graduated, Master's course

  • 1990.04
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    1990.09

    University of Munich, Faculty of Philosophy, Theory of Science, and Religious Studies

    Germany, University, Master's course

  • 1992.10
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    1993.09

    University of Oxford, The Queen's College, Philosophy

    United Kingdom, University

  • 1993.10
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    1996.08

    Erlangen-Nuremberg University, Faculty of Philosophy

    Germany, Graduate School, Graduated, Doctoral course

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Academic Degrees 【 Display / hide 】

  • MA, Erlangen University, Dissertation, 1992.07

  • Dr. phil., Erlangen University, Dissertation, 1996.08

  • Habilitation, Erlangen University, Dissertation, 2004.06

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Research Themes 【 Display / hide 】

  • Aquinas's Natural Law Theory, 

    　

  • History of Ethics, 

    　

  • Kant's practical and theoretical philosophy, 

    　

  • Contemporary Ethics, 

    　

  • Objectivity in Law and Ethics, 

    　

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Books 【 Display / hide 】

  • The Guarantee of Perpetual Peace

    Ertl, Wolfgang, Cambridge University Press, 2020.03

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    This Element addresses three questions about Kant's guarantee thesis by examining the 'first addendum' of his Philosophical Sketch: how the guarantor powers interrelate, how there can be a guarantee without undermining freedom and why there is a guarantee in the first place. Kant's conception of an interplay of human and divine rational agency encompassing nature is crucial: on moral grounds, we are warranted to believe the 'world author' knew that if he were to bring about the world, the 'supreme' good would come about too. Perpetual peace is the condition that enables the supreme good to be realized in history.

  • David Hume und die Dissertation von 1770. Eine Untersuchung zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Philosophie Immanuel Kants

    ERTL, Wolfgang, Peter Lang: Frankfurt am Main et al., 1999

  • Kants Aufloesung der "dritten Antinomie". Zur Bedeutung des Schoepfungskonzepts fuer die Freiheitslehre

    ERTL, Wolfgang, Alber: Freiburg and Munich, 1998

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Papers 【 Display / hide 】

  • Free Will, Foreknowledge, and Creation: Further Explorations of Kant's Molinism

    Wolfgang Ertl

    Kantian Review (Cambridge University Press)  FirstView Article 2023.11

    Research paper (scientific journal), Single Work, Lead author, Accepted

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    While Kant’s position concerning human freedom and divine foreknowledge is perhaps the least Molinist element of his multifaceted take on free will, Kant’s Molinism (minimally defined) is undeniable when it comes to the threat ensuing from the idea of creation. In line with incompatibilism and with careful qualifications in place, he ultimately suggests regarding free agents as uncreated. Given the limitations of our rational insight, this assumption is indispensable for granting that finite free agents can acquire their intelligible characters by themselves. Nonetheless, Kant concedes that creation may, as a matter of fact, be compatible with what for Molina is the pre-volitionality of the counterfactuals of freedom.

  • Preparing the Ground for Kant’s Highest Good in the World

    Ertl W.

    Philosophia (Springer)   2021

    Research paper (scientific journal), Accepted,  ISSN  00483893

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    In his new book, Rossi (2019) emphasizes the prominent role of enlightened religion in the political project of establishing perpetual peace. My paper discusses Rossi’s stance on the question as to whether Kant, in his later years, moved to an immanentist conception of the highest good. Kant’s own position in this regard can arguably be better described as comprehensive, according to which an immanent and a transcendent conception of the highest good are upheld as realizable side by side. Rossi’s account looks perfectly consistent with such a view. One of the reasons for such a comprehensive reading is that “immanent” and “secular” do not coincide in Kant in the first place. Seen in this comprehensive way, and while a version of the highest good ought to be realized immanently, we cannot be certain that this will indeed happen. If it does indeed happen, the immortality postulate, which Kant never abandoned, renders it rational to believe that the immanent version of the highest good is merely a step towards its transcendent realization. Affinities of Rossi’s approach to the suggestion that Kant subscribes to a political theology based on what has been called “Molinism minimally defined” will also be explored.

  • The Guarantee of Perpetual Peace in Kant: Remarks on the Relationship between Providence and Nature

    Ertl, Wolfgang

    (De Gruyter)  IV   2539 - 2548 2018

    Research paper (international conference proceedings), Accepted

  • On Christopher Insole’s “Kant and the Creation of Freedom”

    Ertl, Wolfgang

     2017

    Research paper (scientific journal), Accepted

  • Die dritte Antinomie und die Unterscheidung von Dingen an sich und Erscheinungen bei Kant

    Ertl, Wolfgang

    Nihon Kant Kenkyu 18   66 - 82 2016

    Research paper (scientific journal), Accepted

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Reviews, Commentaries, etc. 【 Display / hide 】

  • Marco Sgarbi: Kant and Aristotle. Epistemology, Logic, and Method

    Wolfgang Ertl

    Kantian Review 27 ( 1 ) 155 - 159 2022.01

    Book review, literature introduction, etc., Single Work, Lead author

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Presentations 【 Display / hide 】

  • Kants Molinismus im Überblick

    Wolfgang Ertl

    Freiheit – Moral – Religion: Kants Religionsphilosophie – Angebot und Herausforderung für die Gegenwart (Katholische Privatuniversität Linz) , 

    2023.09
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    Oral presentation (invited, special)

  • Free Will, Foreknowledge, and Creation: Further Explorations of Kant's Molinism

    Wolfgang Ertl

    American Philosophical Association Central Meeting (Denver) , 

    2023.02
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    Oral presentation (keynote), North American Kant Society

  • Divine Ideas and Kant's Distinction: Augmenting the Metaphysical Two-Aspects View

    Wolfgang Ertl

    History of Philosophy Roundtable (University of California, San Diego) , 

    2023.02
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    Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech

  • Kant on the Highest Good

    Wolfgang Ertl

    (Princeton University) , 

    2022.11
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    Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech, Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion

  • Kant' Molinism, Part II

    Wolfgang Ertl

    (Princeton University) , 

    2022.11
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    Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech

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Research Projects of Competitive Funds, etc. 【 Display / hide 】

  • The hidden connection between Kant and scholasticism

    2018.04
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    2023.03

    MEXT,JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Principal investigator

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Awards 【 Display / hide 】

  • Mary Gregor Lecture

    2023.02, North American Kant Society

    Type of Award： Award from international society, conference, symposium, etc.,  Country： United States

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Courses Taught 【 Display / hide 】

  • STUDY OF ETHICS OF ORIGINAL TEXTBOOKS 4

    2024

  • STUDY OF ETHICS OF ORIGINAL TEXTBOOKS 3

    2024

  • STUDY OF ETHICS 4

    2024

  • STUDY OF ETHICS 3

    2024

  • SPECIAL LECTURE OF ETHICS 4

    2024

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