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14 - Kant’s Rational Autonomy

from Part II - No God, no Soul: What Person?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2019

John M. Rist
John M. Rist
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University of Toronto
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As we have seen, Boethius and Duns Scotus are hinge-figures; Kant is another, for two reasons: first because he marks a significant point in the gradual shift from talk of human dignity, which is Christian language, to rights-talk, which at least was to become post-Christian; and second, and relatedly, because Kant seems to many to offer the best chance of preserving human dignity and human rights without recourse to religious premises.1 I believe this hope delusory.

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What is a Person?
Realities, Constructs, Illusions
 , pp. 137 - 148
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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