Kant and religion

Kant and religion

by Wood, Allen W.

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This masterful work on Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason explores Kant's treatment of the Idea of God, his views concerning evil, and the moral grounds for faith in God. 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. Wood's breadth of knowledge of Kant's corpus, philosophical sharpness, and depth of r…

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  • Full title :Kant and religion / Allen W. Wood.

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This masterful work on Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason explores Kant's treatment of the Idea of God, his views concerning evil, and the moral grounds for faith in God. 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. Wood's breadth of knowledge of Kant's corpus, philosophical sharpness, and depth of reflection sheds light not only on Kant, but also on the fate of religion and its relation to philosophy in the modern world.

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  • Publication Date:2020.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xxii, 249 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781108381512, 1108381510
  • oclc:on1171909268
  • LC Classification:B2799.R4
  • Dewey Decimal:210.92

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half-title page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Citations -- Preface -- Cover Image -- 1 Religion and Reason -- 1.1 What Is "Religion"? -- 1.2 Religion as Essentially Symbolic -- 1.3 Religion in Kant's Life -- 1.4 The Experimental Testing of a Hypothesis -- 1.5 The First Experiment -- 1.6 The Second Experiment -- 1.7 The Publication of Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason -- 1.8 Wöllner's Charges and Kant's Defense -- 2 Moral Faith in God -- 2.1 Philosophical Arguments for Belief in God -- 2.2 Practical Grounds of Assent

2.3 What Is at Stake in Kant's Practical Arguments -- 2.4 The Highest Good as a Moral End -- 2.5 The Moral Argument in The Critique of Pure Reason -- 2.6 The Moral Argument in The Critique of Practical Reason -- 2.7 The Moral Argument in The Critique of the Power of Judgment -- 2.8 The Kind of Assent Justified by the Moral Argument -- 2.9 Is Practical Faith Antievidentialist? -- 3 The Radical Evil in Human Nature -- 3.1 Original Sin and Radical Evil -- 3.2 Practical Freedom -- 3.3 The Concept of Moral Evil -- 3.4 The Propensity to Evil -- 3.5 Kant's "Rigorism" -- 3.6 Walpole's Thesis

3.7 Evil a…

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