This study integrates Schleiermacher's understanding of freedom by way of his principal works (early works, Soliloquies, writings on Election, the Christian Faith, lectures on psychology, ethics and dialectics), and interprets it in the light of the free will debate in analytic philosophy. It makes clear that Schleiermacher advocated a theory of compatibilism, which also reflected the ontological and metaphysical underpinnings of freedom.

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Katharina Gutekunst, Tübingen, Germany.