 Kant argues in Religion within the Bounds of Reason Alone (1793) that free choices against the moral law are unintelligible in the sense that they are irrational; our propensity to make them is thus an inexplicable mystery at the “root” (radix) of our moral psychology. The post-Kantian idealist F.W. J. Schelling, picking up the refrain, rejects the Privation Theory of radical evil in favor of the view that it has its origin in the positive, irrational decision to prefer self-advantage over the moral law, though “just how the decision for good or evil comes to pass in the individual, that is still wrapped in total darkness” (Schelling 1809 [1936: 59]).