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Jan 27, 2010 · Kant concludes that it is morally necessary to assume the existence of God. Kant’s influence on Christianity is in the field of Christian ethics: his concept of the “categorical imperative”, the moral obligation to obey a divine command not because of some future or present reward or punishment, but simply because it is a command from God ...
Jun 22, 2004 · In the Second Edition to the Religion, Kant adds a brief explanation of the function of the Parerga, describing them as concerned with matters which are at the “border” of the “boundaries of pure reason”. He lists these as: (1) the effects of grace; (2) miracles; (3) the holy mysteries; (4) the means of grace.
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Jun 22, 2004 · Kant rejects this argument on the grounds that even simple beings can have a degree of reality (an intensive magnitude) that can diminish to zero, he shortly thereafter presents his own argument for the soul's immortality, one that has a similar metaphysical bent: (a) since throughout nature there is a proportionality between purposes and the conditions for the realization of those purposes ...
Jun 22, 2004 · Kant's Philosophy of Religion. Throughout his career, Immanuel Kant engaged many of the major issues that contemporary philosophy groups together under the heading “philosophy of religion.”. These include arguments for the existence of God, the attributes of God, the immortality of the soul, the problem of evil, and the relationship of ...
Oct 18, 2015 · Both concepts of transcendence, the Christian and the Kantian, deflate, in their own distinctive ways, our hopes for politics and history, in a way that can unsettle the certainties, and vanities, of both the traditional theologian and the secular Rawlsian. The Christian hope is not the same as Kant’s religious hope, which is distinct, in ...
Jan 1, 2010 · Immanuel Kant on the Christian Life. Jeanine M. Grenberg. 01/01/2010. [1] I was once teaching Immanuel Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason[1] to a group of undergraduates. We were discussing Kant's claim that Christ acts as a "prototype" for human morality. That is, Christ provides us with the most perfect example of how to be ...
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Kant hopes that Christianity will reform and reinterpret itself in a way that enables Christians to see that a moral religion of pure reason is the kernel within the hull of revealed Christian faith. Kant also hopes that human society will become centrally an ethical commonwealth or people of God, so that religious life becomes the animating ...
