Byrne Kant on God

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-92441-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 194 Seiten

Reihe: Ashgate Studies in the History of Philosophical Theology

Peter Byrne presents a detailed study of the role of the concept of God in Kant's Critical Philosophy. After a preliminary survey of the major interpretative disputes over the understanding of Kant on God, Byrne explores his critique of philosophical proofs of God’s existence. Examining Kant’s account of religious language, Byrne highlights both the realist and anti-realist elements contained within it. The notion of the highest good is then explored, with its constituent elements - happiness and virtue, in pursuit of an assessment of how far Kant establishes that we must posit God. The precise role God plays in ethics according to Kant is then examined, along with the definition of religion as the recognition of duties as divine commands. Byrne also plots Kant’s critical re-working of the concept of grace. The book closes with a survey of the relation between the Critical Philosophy and Christianity on the one hand and deism on the other.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Byrne, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Preface; God and Kant's critical project; Kant on natural theology I; Kant on natural theology II; Religious language and the boundaries of sense; The positive case for God; Kant on the elements of the highest good; Kant's moral theology explored; Kant, Christianity and deism; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Byrne is Professor of Ethics and the Philosophy of Religion at King's College, London, UK.