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Kant and religion: conflict or compromise?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1999

CHRIS L. FIRESTONE
Affiliation:
New College, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH2 2LX, Scotland

Abstract

The standard reading of Kant presumes that ‘the moral hypothesis’ is a necessary and sufficient condition for understanding his philosophy of religion. This paper opens with the assumption – taken from one of Kant's last works – that philosophy and theology must always remain in conflict. Then, by way of an abductive comparison of the positions of Ronald M. Green and John Hick, I demonstrate that the moral hypothesis leads to religious compromises that contradict this assumption. To conclude, I argue that the motif of transformation is syptomatic of the underlying problem and suggest that it be replaced by the motif of transition.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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