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Chapter 6 - Ethics and politics in Kant???s Religion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2011

James DiCenso
James DiCenso
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University of Toronto
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Summary

Autonomy and radical evil

Kant’s inquiry into historical religions does not compromise the epistemological and ethical principles underpinning the critical philosophy. He makes this clear at the opening of the work:

[S]o far as morality is based on the conception of the human being as one who is free [als eines freien] but who also, just because of that, binds himself through his reason to unconditional laws, it is in need neither of the idea of another being above him in order to recognise his duty, nor, that he observe it, of an incentive other than the law itself. (R, 6:3)

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Kant, Religion, and Politics , pp. 219 - 282
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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Jonathan, GloverHumanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth CenturyLondonJonathan Cape 1999Google Scholar
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