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Kant’s Rational Religion and the Radical Enlightenment

Author: Anna Tomaszewska

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-07-28

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1350195855

Kant's defence of religion and attempts to reconcile faith with reason position him as a moderate Enlightenment thinker in existing scholarship. Challenging this view and reconceptualising Kant's religion along rationalist lines, Anna Tomaszewska sheds light on its affinities with the ideas of the radical Enlightenment, originating in the work of Baruch Spinoza and understood as a critique of divine revelation. Distinguishing the epistemological, ethical and political aspects of such a critique, Tomaszewska shows how Kant's defence of religion consists of rationalizing its core tenets and establishing morality as the essence of religious faith. She aligns him with other early modern rationalists and German Spinozists and reveals the significance for contemporary political philosophy. Providing reasons for prioritizing freedom of thought, and hence religious criticism, over an unqualified freedom of belief, Kant's theology approximates the secularising tendency of the radical Enlightenment. Here is an understanding of how the shift towards a secular outlook in Western culture was shaped by attempts to rationalize rather than uproot Christianity.

Kant's Rational Religion and the Radical Enlightenment

Author: Anna Tomaszewska

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Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781350195875

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"Kant's defence of religion and attempts to reconcile faith with reason position him as a moderate Enlightenment thinker in existing scholarship. Challenging this view and reconceptualising Kant's religion along rationalist lines, Anna Tomaszewska sheds light on its affinities with the ideas of the radical Enlightenment, originating in the work of Baruch Spinoza and understood as a critique of divine revelation. Distinguishing the epistemological, ethical and political aspects of such a critique, Tomaszewska shows how Kant's defence of religion consists of rationalizing its core tenets and establishing morality as the essence of religious faith. She aligns him with other 17th-century rationalists and German Spinozists and reveals the significance for contemporary political philosophy. Arguing that by prioritizing freedom of thought, and hence religious criticism, over an unqualified freedom of belief, Kant's theology approximates the secularising tendency of the radical Enlightenment. Here is an understanding of how the shift towards a secular outlook in Western culture was shaped by attempts to rationalize rather than uproot Christianity."--

Kant's 'Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason'

Author: Eddis N. Miller

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2014-11-20

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1472507630

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Immanuel Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason is a seminal text in modern philosophy, ethics, and the philosophy of religion. It is a complex and challenging work, which students and scholars often find difficult to penetrate. This Reader's Guide provides a 'way in' to the text including: philosophical and historical context; an overview of key themes; section-by-section analysis of the text; a chapter on its reception and influence as a classic text of the Enlightenment; and a guide for further reading. It highlights the most important themes and ideas, clarifies certain opaque features, and examines the junctures in the text that are critical for any philosophical assessment of Kant's argument. Eddis N. Miller offers a sound understanding of Kant's Religion and the tools for students to philosophically assess Kant's overall argument.

Kant and Religion

Author: Allen W. Wood

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-05-28

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1108422349

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Explores Kant's philosophy of religion and morality through his Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason.

Religion and Rational Theology

Author: Immanuel Kant

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-03-19

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 9780521799980

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This volume collects all of Kant's writings on religion and rational theology.

Kant-s Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason

Author: Gordon Michalson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-04-17

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1107018528

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This volume provides a synoptic view of Kant's major work of religious thought.

In Defense of Kant's Religion

Author: Chris L. Firestone

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2008-10-09

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 0253000718

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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’s Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason

Author: Gordon Michalson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-04-17

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 113986744X

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Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason was written late in his career. It presents a theory of 'radical evil' in human nature, touches on the issue of divine grace, develops a Christology, and takes a seemingly strong interest in the issue of scriptural interpretation. The essays in this Critical Guide explore the reasons why this is so, and offer careful and illuminating interpretations of the themes of the work. The relationship of Kant's Religion to his other writings is discussed in ways that underscore the importance of this work for the entire critical philosophy, and provide a broad perspective on his moral thought; connections are also drawn between religion, history, and politics in Kant's later thinking. Together the essays offer a rich exploration of the work which will be of great interest to those involved in Kant studies and the philosophy of religion.

Pessimism in Kant's Ethics and Rational Religion

Author: Dennis Vanden Auweele

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2018-11-05

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1498580408

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Dennis Vanden Auweele explores Kant’s moral and religious philosophy and shows that a pessimistic undercurrent pervades them. This provides a new vantage point not only to comprehensively assess Kantian philosophy, but also to provide much needed context and reading assistance to the general premises of Kant's philosophy and rationality.

Between Secularization and Reform

Author: Anna Tomaszewska

Publisher: Brill's Studies in Intellectua

Published: 2022-08-26

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789004458710

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The authors revisit the idea that Enlightenment spearheaded secularization. This book invites all to look at the Enlightenment religiosity as founded on a merger of religious criticism and heterodoxy.