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Click on the phrases to see them in context. The original texts by Immanuel Kant and David Hume are available from the Gutenberg Projet.
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The transcendental idea of freedom is far from constituting the entire content of the psychological conception so termed, which is for the most part empirical. The problem was merely this--whether freedom and natural necessity can exist without opposition in the same action. This freedom will, among other things, permit of our openly stating the difficulties and doubts which we are ourselves unable to solve, without being decried on that account as turbulent and dangerous citizens. If we permit ourselves to be deceived by the illusion of transcendental idealism, we shall find that neither nature nor freedom exists. In relation, however, to the principle, whereby reason sets bounds to a freedom which is in itself without law, and consequently when we attend merely to their form, they may be considered as pure conceptions of reason. The question of the possibility of freedom does indeed concern psychology; but, as it rests upon dialectical arguments of pure reason, its solution must engage the attention of transcendental philosophy. The laws of freedom or of free will are hence termed practical laws. For, if freedom were determined according to laws, it would be no longer freedom, but merely nature. For, if freedom were determined according to laws, it would be no longer freedom, but merely nature.