Frontier Kantianism: Autonomy and Authority in Ralph Waldo Emerson and Joseph Smith
Ralph Waldo Emerson is often seen as the early American prophet of autonomy. This essay suggests a perhaps surprising fellow traveler in this prophetic call: Joseph Smith. Smith opposed religious creeds for the same reason that Emerson denounced them, namely that creeds represent a threat to the aut...
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Year: 2018, Volume: 46, Issue: 2, Pages: 332-359 |
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B Ralph Waldo Emerson B Immanuel Kant B Autonomy B Joseph Smith |
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| 520 | |a Ralph Waldo Emerson is often seen as the early American prophet of autonomy. This essay suggests a perhaps surprising fellow traveler in this prophetic call: Joseph Smith. Smith opposed religious creeds for the same reason that Emerson denounced them, namely that creeds represent a threat to the autonomy of a person's beliefs. Smith and Emerson also forward similar defenses of individual autonomy in action. Furthermore, they encounter a shared problem: how can autonomy be possible in a society where other individuals hold some kind of authority? I propose that each thinker resolves this tension through an insight with a Kantian echo. A suitably qualified version of authority can sometimes count as an expression of, rather than hindrance to, autonomy. I describe the overlap in Emerson and Smith as a frontier version of Kantianism. They favor determining one's own beliefs and actions in a way that looks forward to an open future of possibility. | ||
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