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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1. VerfasserIn: Haring, James (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Wiley-Blackwell [2020]
In: Journal of religious ethics
Jahr: 2020, Band: 48, Heft: 1, Seiten: 74-100
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Kant, Immanuel 1724-1804, Kritik der reinen Vernunft (1781) / Judentum / Sittengesetz
IxTheo Notationen:AB Religionsphilosophie; Religionskritik; Atheismus
BH Judentum
NCA Ethik
VA Philosophie
weitere Schlagwörter:B religious law
B Noachide Laws
B Judaism
B moral law
B Kant
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:1467-9795
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/jore.12301