Judaism and the Contingency of Religious Law in Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
For Kant's moral universalism, contingent religious law is legitimate only when it serves as a means of fulfilling the moral law. Though Kant uses traditional theological resources to account for the possibility of "statutory ecclesiastical law" in historical religions, he denies this...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2020]
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Journal of religious ethics
Year: 2020, Volume: 48, Issue: 1, Pages: 74-100 |
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Kant, Immanuel 1724-1804, Kritik der reinen Vernunft (1781)
/ Judaism
/ Moral law
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism BH Judaism NCA Ethics VA Philosophy |
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religious law
B Noachide Laws B Judaism B moral law B Kant |
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| Summary: | For Kant's moral universalism, contingent religious law is legitimate only when it serves as a means of fulfilling the moral law. Though Kant uses traditional theological resources to account for the possibility of "statutory ecclesiastical law" in historical religions, he denies this possibility to Jewish law. Something like Kant's logic appears in the work of some of his intellectual successors who continue to define Christianity in terms of its moral superiority to Judaism while attempting to excise remaining "Jewish" elements from it. A more adequate account of the Hebrew Bible, Judaism, and the origins of Christianity exposes deficiencies in Kant's universalizing logic which seems to deny any intrinsic value to historical religions. A possible alternative may lie in a modified account of the relationship between the moral law and religious law, perhaps nourished by Jewish thought, including the rabbinic tradition of the Noachide commandments. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9795 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/jore.12301 |