Abstract
The goal of this monography is to explain F. W.
J. Schelling's (1775-1854) understanding of moral action against the background of the volitional conception of the absolute elaborated in the period 1809-1821.
The main focus here is the interpretation of Schelling's theory of moral action in the treatise Of Human Freedom (1809) and its continuation in the fragmentary unpublished work Ages of the World (1810-1821). The remainder of this monography focuses on Kant's theory of moral action in the work Religion within the limits of reason alone (1793) and on a comparison between Schelling's concept of the absolute and Kierkegaard's concept of human freedom from the Concept of Anxiety (1844).