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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2018]
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Religious studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 54, Issue: 1, Pages: 131-145 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Kant, Immanuel 1724-1804, Die Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der bloßen Vernunft
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/ Moral act
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism VB Hermeneutics; Philosophy |
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| Summary: | 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 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412516000408 |
