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- Enlightenment thinkers like Kant wanted to solve the problem that those of different faiths could never come to agreement. Religious warfare had been greatly destructive in Europe. Kant’s solution was to base religion and ethics on reason, not faith. Reason is universal in that everyone has it, but not everyone shares the same faith.
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Jun 22, 2004 · With the introduction of Transcendental Idealism’s epistemic strictures, Kant came to the conclusion that religion must fall outside the scope of theoretical reason. However, instead of atheism or agnosticism, Kant advanced a novel philosophical theology that grounds religion on the “needs” of practical reason.
- Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher
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- Kierkegaard, Søren
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- Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher
Jun 22, 2004 · God and religion in Kant's critical philosophy. The shift in perspective that Kant takes in his critical philosophy — a shift that he designated a “Copernican revolution” — not only sharpens the earlier criticisms he had made of the ontological and cosmological arguments for the existence of God.
Jun 22, 2004 · These are the philosophical function of the concept of God, arguments for the existence of God, the relationship between morality and religion (including his notion of “moral faith” and his treatment of “radical evil”), and the role of religion in the dynamics of human culture and history.
- Kant and Religion. This article does not present a full biography of Kant. A more general account of his life can be found in the article Kant’s Aesthetics.
- God in Some Pre-critical Writings. Kant’s pre-critical writings are those that precede his Inaugural Dissertation of 1770, which marked his assumption of the chair in logic and metaphysics at the university.
- Each Critique as Pivotal. The heart of Kant’s philosophical system is the triad of books constituting his great critiques: his Critique of Pure Reason, published in 1781 (the A edition), with a significantly revised second edition appearing in 1787 (the B edition); his Critique of Practical Reason, published in 1788; and his Critique of Judgment, published in 1790.
- The Prolegomena and Kant’s Lectures. a. The Prolegomena. Most—but not all—of the religious epistemology that is of note in Kant’s Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics is already contained in his more philosophically impressive first Critique and will not be repeated here.
May 8, 2020 · Kant’s concept of religion is recognizing all duties as divine commands. The concept of God employed in religion is an analogical or symbolic concept. Kant’s relation to Christianity was characterized by a tension between Pietism and Enlightenment rationalism.
- Allen W. Wood
- 2020
Kant and Religion works to deepen our understanding of religion's place and meaning within the history of human culture, touching on Kant's philosophical stance regarding theoretical, moral, political, and religious matters.
Aug 9, 2019 · This article examines Kant’s understanding of moral progress, especially in his Religion where he argues that religion and, more importantly, the foundation of an ethical community are necessary to promote moral progress.
