Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction: on religion, ethics, and the political in Kant
- Chapter 2 Religion, politics, enlightenment
- Chapter 3 Knowledge and experience
- Chapter 4 Illusions of metaphysics and theology
- Chapter 5 Autonomy and judgment in Kant???s ethics
- Chapter 6 Ethics and politics in Kant???s Religion
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Chapter 6 - Ethics and politics in Kant???s Religion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction: on religion, ethics, and the political in Kant
- Chapter 2 Religion, politics, enlightenment
- Chapter 3 Knowledge and experience
- Chapter 4 Illusions of metaphysics and theology
- Chapter 5 Autonomy and judgment in Kant???s ethics
- Chapter 6 Ethics and politics in Kant???s Religion
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
Autonomy and radical evil
Kant’s inquiry into historical religions does not compromise the epistemological and ethical principles underpinning the critical philosophy. He makes this clear at the opening of the work:
[S]o far as morality is based on the conception of the human being as one who is free [als eines freien] but who also, just because of that, binds himself through his reason to unconditional laws, it is in need neither of the idea of another being above him in order to recognise his duty, nor, that he observe it, of an incentive other than the law itself. (R, 6:3)
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- Kant, Religion, and Politics , pp. 219 - 282Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011