  In 1789 a second, much enlarged, edition of the Spinoza-Letters went to press. It reflected the recent publication of Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason (1788). Among many additions, it included two prefatory sets of theses, the first denying human freedom, the second asserting it, together suggesting a resolution of the antinomy between nature and freedom quite different than the one proposed by Kant. It also included a number of new appendices, one of them sharply criticizing Herder, whose idea of God amounted, in Jacobi’s opinion, to a half-baked  pantheism.[4]  (Jacobi, 1789: 349–357) Jacobi’s prefatory theses on human freedom were to be highly influential in the debate on the subject soon to break out between K.L Reinhold and C. C. E. Schmid.  (di Giovanni, 2001) The debate quickly implicated many other personalities, Fichte among them.