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Kant and the Divine - From Contemplation to the Moral Law (Hardcover)
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Kant and the Divine - From Contemplation to the Moral Law (Hardcover)
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The book offers a definitive study of the development of Kant's
conception of the highest good, from his earliest work, to his
dying days. Insole argues that Kant believes in God, but that Kant
is not a Christian, and that this opens up an important and
neglected dimension of Western Philosophy. Kant is not a Christian,
because he cannot accept Christianity's traditional claims about
the relationship between divine action, grace, human freedom and
happiness. Christian theologians who continue to affirm these
traditional claims (and many do), therefore have grounds to be
suspicious of Kant as an interpreter of Christian doctrine. As well
as setting out a theological critique of Kant, Insole offers a new
defence of the power, beauty, and internal coherence of Kant's
non-Christian philosophical religiosity, 'within the limits of
reason alone', which reason itself has some divine features. This
neglected strand of philosophical religiosity deserves to be
engaged with by both philosophers, and theologians. The Kant
revealed in this book reminds us of a perennial task of philosophy,
going back to Plato, where philosophy is construed as a way of
life, oriented towards happiness, achieved through a properly
expansive conception of reason and happiness. When we understand
this philosophical religiosity, many standard 'problems' in the
interpretation of Kant can be seen in a new light, and resolved.
Kant witnesses to a strand of philosophy that leans into the
category of the divine, at the edges of what we can say about
reason, freedom, autonomy, and happiness.
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