westpal post kant
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- Post-Kantian reconstructions of the Deist Project
- Rational religion = universal morality
- Catagorical Imperative
- Religion not essential but useful to moral life
- Summum Bonum
- God is necessary to provide justice in the after life, without which moral bevhaviour would be irrational
- Iranean Theodicy - afterlife enables us to become perfect
- God is necessary to provide justice in the after life, without which moral bevhaviour would be irrational
- Summum Bonum
- Kant's Pelagianism - Christ nothing more than good role model & people can improve themselves through moral effort
- Kant and the Church
- Religion is a means to an end (2nd catagorical imperative) - Kant hostile towards rituals and church rules - get in the way of morality
- Counterfeit services to God (Husk) - Fetish Faith such as worshipping saints - does not led to morals
- Demythologised Chirstianity - Link to Bultmann - Kerygma
- Counterfeit services to God (Husk) - Fetish Faith such as worshipping saints - does not led to morals
- KANT- 1) Morality does not need religion at all (being religious doesnt make you automatically moral)
- KANT - 2) Morality leads inevitably to religion - link back to theodicy
- KANT - 3) Religion is the recognition of all duties as divine commands (Act as if there was a god - aid living in moral life)
- Braithwaite - God helps us be moral
- KANT - 3) Religion is the recognition of all duties as divine commands (Act as if there was a god - aid living in moral life)
- KANT - 2) Morality leads inevitably to religion - link back to theodicy
- Religion is a means to an end (2nd catagorical imperative) - Kant hostile towards rituals and church rules - get in the way of morality
- Lessing and Spinoza
- Lessing -against taking bible literally . Miricales cant be proven . less attached to idea od god important for morality
- Spinoza - suggested Panthianism - Deus sive Natura - God is the same as the natural world - links to romantic era - Gid is immanent (Kant)
- Lessing -against taking bible literally . Miricales cant be proven . less attached to idea od god important for morality
- Schlieirmacher and Hegel
- Schlieirmacher - against kant - emphasis on feelings (religious experience) - no problem with religious practice or dogma's serve a prupose to help trigger these feelings or religious experiences
- Link to Intuition - Donovan / Owen and Plato - highest form of knowledge
- Hegel - Philosophical religion is greater than traditional religion - Gott order Geist - Link to Spinoza and Panthiest - also wanted to demythologise chirstianity - Idealist views - not concerned with saving people from hell - lifting personality
- Schlieirmacher - against kant - emphasis on feelings (religious experience) - no problem with religious practice or dogma's serve a prupose to help trigger these feelings or religious experiences
- Rational religion = universal morality
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