Dropping the debt: a new conundrum in Kant's rational religion
In this article, I argue that Immanuel Kant fails to provide a satisfactory account of moral debt' in Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason. More precisely, he fails to answer the question of why we should assume that a debt exists in the first place. In light of recent scholarship on...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2018]
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Religious studies
Jahr: 2018, Band: 54, Heft: 1, Seiten: 131-145 |
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Kant, Immanuel 1724-1804, Die Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der bloßen Vernunft
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/ Moralisches Handeln
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Religionsphilosophie; Religionskritik; Atheismus VB Logik; philosophische Hermeneutik; philosophische Erkenntnislehre |
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| Zusammenfassung: | In this article, I argue that Immanuel Kant fails to provide a satisfactory account of moral debt' in Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason. More precisely, he fails to answer the question of why we should assume that a debt exists in the first place. In light of recent scholarship on this area of his thought, I sketch some possible readings of Kant on the nature of moral transformation that suggest how he might account for this debt. I then argue that these accounts fail to justify its existence within Kant's project. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-901X |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412516000408 |