Kant: Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason

Kant: Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1998-11-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521599641

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Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason is a key element of the system of philosophy which Kant introduced with his Critique of Pure Reason, and a work of major importance in the history of Western religious thought. It represents a great philosopher's attempt to spell out the form and content of a type of religion that would be grounded in moral reason and would meet the needs of ethical life. It includes sharply critical and boldly constructive discussions on topics not often treated by philosophers, including such traditional theological concepts as original sin and the salvation or 'justification' of a sinner, and the idea of the proper role of a church. This volume presents it and three short essays that illuminate it in new translations by Allen Wood and George di Giovanni, with an introduction by Robert Merrihew Adams that locates it in its historical and philosophical context.

Religion and Practical Reason

Religion and Practical Reason
Author: Frank E. Reynolds
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 462
Release: 1994-10-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1438417187

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This book contains programmatic essays that focus on broad-ranging proposals for re-envisioning a discipline of comparative philosophy of religions. It also contains a number of case studies focussing on the interpretation of particular religio-historical data from comparatively oriented philosophical perspectives.

Religion And Practical Reason

Religion And Practical Reason
Author: Frank Reynolds
Publisher:
Total Pages: 444
Release: 1994
Genre: Philosophy, Comparative
ISBN: 9788170305262

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Contains Pragmatic Essays Focusing On Re-Envisioning A Descriptive Of Comparative Philosophy Of Religions - Also Contains A Number Of Case Studies Focusing On The Interpretation Of Particular Religio-Historical Data From Comparatively Oriented Philosophical Perspectives. 10 Essays In 4 Parts - Index.

Religion and Public Reason

Religion and Public Reason
Author: Maureen Junker-Kenny
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2014-04-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 311037112X

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This book compares three approaches to public reason and to the public space accorded to religions: the liberal platform of an overlapping consensus proposed by John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas’s discourse ethical reformulation of Kant’s universalism and its realization in the public sphere, and the co-founding role which Paul Ricoeur attributes to the particular traditions that have shaped their cultures and the convictions of citizens. The premises of their positions are analysed under four aspects: (1) the normative framework which determines the specific function of public reason; (2) their anthropologies and theories of action; (3) the dimensions of social life and its concretization in a democratic political framework; (4) the different views of religion that follow from these factors, including their understanding of the status of metaphysical and religious truth claims, and the role of religion as a practice and conviction in a pluralist society. Recent receptions and critiques in English and German are brought into conversation: philosophers and theologians discuss the scope of public reason, and the task of translation from faith traditions, as well as the role they might have in the diversity of world cultures for shaping a shared cosmopolitan horizon.

Kant and Religion

Kant and Religion
Author: Allen W. Wood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2020-05-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1108422349

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Explores Kant's philosophy of religion and morality through his Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason.

Reason, Religion, and Natural Law

Reason, Religion, and Natural Law
Author: Jonathan A. Jacobs
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2012-10-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199995923

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This edited volume examines the realizations between theological considerations and natural law theorizing, from Plato to Spinoza. Theological considerations have long had a pronounced role in Catholic natural law theories, but have not been as thoroughly examined from a wider perspective. The contributors to this volume take a more inclusive view of the relation between conceptions of natural law and theistic claims and principles. They do not jointly defend one particular thematic claim, but articulate diverse ways in which natural law has both been understood and related to theistic claims. In addition to exploring Plato and the Stoics, the volume also looks at medieval Jewish thought, the thought of Aquinas, Scotus, and Ockham, and the ways in which Spinoza's thought includes resonances of earlier views and intimations of later developments. Taken as a whole, these essays enlarge the scope of the discussion of natural law through study of how the naturalness of natural law has often been related to theses about the divine. The latter are often crucial elements of natural law theorizing, having an integral role in accounting for the metaethical status and ethical bindingness of natural law. At the same time, the question of the relation between natural law and God-and the relation between natural law and divine command-has been addressed in a multiplicity of ways by key figures throughout the history of natural law theorizing, and these essays accord them the explanatory significance they deserve.

Why Tolerate Religion?

Why Tolerate Religion?
Author: Brian Leiter
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2014-08-24
Genre: Law
ISBN: 140085234X

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Why it's wrong to single out religious liberty for special legal protections This provocative book addresses one of the most enduring puzzles in political philosophy and constitutional theory—why is religion singled out for preferential treatment in both law and public discourse? Why are religious obligations that conflict with the law accorded special toleration while other obligations of conscience are not? In Why Tolerate Religion?, Brian Leiter shows why our reasons for tolerating religion are not specific to religion but apply to all claims of conscience, and why a government committed to liberty of conscience is not required by the principle of toleration to grant exemptions to laws that promote the general welfare.

Religion and Practical Reason

Religion and Practical Reason
Author: Frank E. Reynolds
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 458
Release: 1994-10-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780791422182

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This book contains programmatic essays that focus on broad-ranging proposals for re-envisioning a discipline of comparative philosophy of religions. It also contains a number of case studies focussing on the interpretation of particular religio-historical data from comparatively oriented philosophical perspectives.