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
Chapter 2 - Religion, politics, enlightenment
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
Summary
Injustice, human rights, and the political
Before discussing the first Critique more closely over the following two chapters, I want to outline how Kant defined his long-term intellectual goals in broader ethical and political terms. This includes a discussion of the types of political and economic conditions he opposed, how his inquiries into the seemingly abstruse domains of metaphysics and theology formed a crucial component of a sustained inquiry into human autonomy, and how he developed his approach to individual and collective reform.
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- Kant, Religion, and Politics , pp. 24 - 68Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011