Kant's Philosophy of Religion Reconsidered

Kant's Philosophy of Religion Reconsidered
Author: Philip J. Rossi
Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1991-11-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

"The essays, both philosophical and historical, demonstrate the continuing significance of a neglected aspect of Kant's thought." --Religious Studies Review Challenging the traditional view that Kant's account of religion was peripheral to his thinking, these essays demonstrate the centrality of religion to Kant's critical philosophy. Contributors are Sharon Anderson-Gold, Leslie A. Mulholland, Anthony N. Perovich, Jr., Philip J. Rossi, Joseph Runzo, Denis Savage, Walter Sparn, Burkhard Tuschling, Nicholas P. Wolterstorff, and Allen W. Wood.

In Defense of Kant's Religion

In Defense of Kant's Religion
Author: Chris L. Firestone
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 594
Release: 2008-10-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0253000718

Chris L. Firestone and Nathan Jacobs integrate and interpret the work of leading Kant scholars to come to a new and deeper understanding of Kant's difficult book, Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason. In this text, Kant's vocabulary and language are especially tortured and convoluted. Readers have often lost sight of the thinker's deep ties to Christianity and questioned the viability of the work as serious philosophy of religion. Firestone and Jacobs provide strong and cogent grounds for taking Kant's religion seriously and defend him against the charges of incoherence. In their reading, Christian essentials are incorporated into the confines of reason, and they argue that Kant establishes a rational religious faith in accord with religious conviction as it is elaborated in his mature philosophy. For readers at all levels, this book articulates a way to ground religion and theology in a fully fledged defense of Religion which is linked to the larger corpus of Kant's philosophical enterprise.

Kant: Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason

Kant: Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1998-11-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521599641

Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason is a key element of the system of philosophy which Kant introduced with his Critique of Pure Reason, and a work of major importance in the history of Western religious thought. It represents a great philosopher's attempt to spell out the form and content of a type of religion that would be grounded in moral reason and would meet the needs of ethical life. It includes sharply critical and boldly constructive discussions on topics not often treated by philosophers, including such traditional theological concepts as original sin and the salvation or 'justification' of a sinner, and the idea of the proper role of a church. This volume presents it and three short essays that illuminate it in new translations by Allen Wood and George di Giovanni, with an introduction by Robert Merrihew Adams that locates it in its historical and philosophical context.

Kant's Reform of Metaphysics

Kant's Reform of Metaphysics
Author: Karin de Boer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2020-09-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108842178

This book reinterprets key parts of the Critique of Pure Reason in view of Kant's sustained engagement with Wolffian metaphysics.

Freedom and Religion in Kant and his Immediate Successors

Freedom and Religion in Kant and his Immediate Successors
Author: George di Giovanni
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2005-02-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 113944462X

The theologians of the late German Enlightenment saw in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason a new rational defence of their Christian faith. In fact, Kant's critical theory of meaning and moral law totally subverted the spirit of that faith. This challenging new study examines the contribution made by the Critique of Pure Reason to this change of meaning. George di Giovanni stresses the revolutionary character of Kant's critical thought but also reveals how this thought was being held hostage to unwarranted metaphysical assumptions that caused much confusion and rendered the First Critique vulnerable to being reabsorbed into modes of thought typical of Enlightenment popular philosophy. Amongst the striking features of this book are nuanced interpretations of Jacobi and Reinhold, a lucid exposition of Fichte's early thought, and a rare, detailed account of Enlightenment popular philosophy.

Kant's Theory of Virtue

Kant's Theory of Virtue
Author: Anne Margaret Baxley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2010-11-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1139493167

Anne Margaret Baxley offers a systematic interpretation of Kant's theory of virtue, whose most distinctive features have not been properly understood. She explores the rich moral psychology in Kant's later and less widely read works on ethics, and argues that the key to understanding his account of virtue is the concept of autocracy, a form of moral self-government in which reason rules over sensibility. Although certain aspects of Kant's theory bear comparison to more familiar Aristotelian claims about virtue, Baxley contends that its most important aspects combine to produce something different - a distinctively modern, egalitarian conception of virtue which is an important and overlooked alternative to the more traditional Greek views which have dominated contemporary virtue ethics.

Kant's Rational Theology

Kant's Rational Theology
Author: Allen W. Wood
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1978
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

This book explores Kant's views on the concept of God and on the attempt to demonstrate God's existence as a means of understanding Kant's work as a whole and of achieving a proper appreciation of the contents of Kant's moral faith.

Kant and Theology

Kant and Theology
Author: Pamela Sue Anderson
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2010-05-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567603741

Shedding new light on enlightenment and religion, this is an introduction to the influence of Kant's thoughts on theology and the response from theology.

Kant and the Question of Theology

Kant and the Question of Theology
Author: Chris L. Firestone
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2017-09-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1107116813

Kant scholars and analytic philosophers use varied perspectives to address problems surrounding Kant's theories of God and religion.