RT Article
T1 Judaism and the Contingency of Religious Law in Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
JF Journal of religious ethics
VO 48
IS 1
SP 74
OP 100
A1 Haring, James
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1690971649
AB 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.
K1 Judaism
K1 Kant
K1 Noachide Laws
K1 moral law
K1 religious law
DO 10.1111/jore.12301