Kant on God Exploring the Notion of the Divine in the Critical Philosophy |
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Author:
| Byrne, Peter |
Series title: | Ashgate Studies in the History of Philosophical Theology Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-7546-4022-6 |
Publication Date: | May 2007 |
Publisher: | Routledge
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $99.95 |
Book Description:
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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 constituentelements -...
More DescriptionPeter 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 constituentelements - 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 bookcloses with a survey of the relation between the Critical Philosophy and Christianity, on the one hand, and deism, on the other.