Kant And Theodicy

Author : George Huxford
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 175 pages
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Release : 2020-02-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498597241

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Kant and Theodicy by George Huxford Pdf

In Kant and Theodicy: A Search for an Answer to the Problem of Evil, George Huxford proves that Kant’s engagement with theodicy was career-long and not confined to his short 1791 treatise that dealt explicitly with the subject. Huxford treats Kant’s developing thought on theodicy in three periods: pre-Critical (exploration), early-Critical (transition), and late-Critical (conclusion). Illustrating the advantage of approaching Kant through this framework, Huxford argues that Kant’s stance developed through his career into his own unique authentic theodicy; Kant rejected philosophical theodicies based on theoretical/speculative reason but advanced authentic theodicy grounded in practical reason, finding a middle ground between philosophical theodicy and fideism, both of which he rejected. Nevertheless, Huxford concludes that Kant’s authentic theodicy fails because it fails to meet his own definition of a theodicy.

Author : Michel Despland
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780773592612

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Kant on History and Religion by Michel Despland Pdf

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001-03-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521799988

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Religion and Rational Theology by Immanuel Kant Pdf

This volume collects all of Kant's writings on religion and rational theology.

Author : Ina Goy
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110689006

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Kant on Proofs for God’s Existence by Ina Goy Pdf

This volume provides a highly needed, comprehensive analysis of Kant's views on proofs for God's existence and explains the radical turns of Kant's accounts. In the "Theory of Heavens" (1755), Kant intended to harmonize the Newtonian laws of motion with a physicotheological argument for the existence of God. But only a few years later, in the "Ground of Proof" essay (1763), Kant defended an ontological ('possibility' or 'modal') argument on the basis of its logical exactitude. Nevertheless he continued to praise the physicotheological argument. In the first "Critique" (1781/7), Kant replaced the traditional constitutive proofs with regulative theoretical and practical arguments. He continued to defend a moral argument in the second "Critique" (1788). But in the third "Critique" (1790), Kant reintroduced a physicotheological besides an ethicotheological argument in order to unify the critical system of philosophy. Kant developed further moral arguments in the "Theodicy" essay (1791) and the "Religion" (1793/4), and still continued to discuss proofs for God's existence in the "OP" (1796–1804). This volume speaks to Kant specialists in the fields of philosophy and theology, but can be used also as an introduction for non-academic readers.

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998-11-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521599644

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Kant: Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason by Immanuel Kant Pdf

Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason is a key element of the system of philosophy which Kant introduced with his Critique of Pure Reason, and a work of major importance in the history of Western religious thought. It represents a great philosopher's attempt to spell out the form and content of a type of religion that would be grounded in moral reason and would meet the needs of ethical life. It includes sharply critical and boldly constructive discussions on topics not often treated by philosophers, including such traditional theological concepts as original sin and the salvation or 'justification' of a sinner, and the idea of the proper role of a church. This volume presents it and three short essays that illuminate it in new translations by Allen Wood and George di Giovanni, with an introduction by Robert Merrihew Adams that locates it in its historical and philosophical context.

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : God
ISBN : HARVARD:AH6PVE

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Metaphysical Works of the Celebrated Immanuel Kant by Immanuel Kant Pdf

Author : Sarah K. Pinnock
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791487808

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Beyond Theodicy by Sarah K. Pinnock Pdf

Explores the work of post-Holocaust Jewish and Christian thinkers who reject theodicy—arguments explaining why a loving God can permit evil and suffering in the world.

Author : Marilyn McCord Adams,John Hare,Linda Zagzebski,Laura Garcia,Bruce Russell,Stephen J. Wykstra,Stephen Maitzen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253024381

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Ethics and the Problem of Evil by Marilyn McCord Adams,John Hare,Linda Zagzebski,Laura Garcia,Bruce Russell,Stephen J. Wykstra,Stephen Maitzen Pdf

Provocative essays that seek “to turn the attention of analytic philosophy of religion on the problem of evil . . . towards advances in ethical theory” (Reading Religion). The contributors to this book—Marilyn McCord Adams, John Hare, Linda Zagzebski, Laura Garcia, Bruce Russell, Stephen Wykstra, and Stephen Maitzen—attended two University of Notre Dame conferences in which they addressed the thesis that there are yet untapped resources in ethical theory for affecting a more adequate solution to the problem of evil. The problem of evil has been an extremely active area of study in the philosophy of religion for many years. Until now, most sources have focused on logical, metaphysical, and epistemological issues, leaving moral questions as open territory. With the resources of ethical theory firmly in hand, this volume provides lively insight into this ageless philosophical issue. “These essays—and others—will be of primary interest to scholars working in analytic philosophy of religion from a self-consciously Christian standpoint, but its audience is not limited to such persons. The book offers illustrative examples of how scholars in philosophy of religion understand their aims and how they go about making their arguments . . . hopefully more work will follow this volume’s lead.”—Reading Religion “Recommended.”—Choice

Author : Chris L. Firestone,Nathan A. Jacobs,James H. Joiner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107116818

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Kant and the Question of Theology by Chris L. Firestone,Nathan A. Jacobs,James H. Joiner Pdf

Kant scholars and analytic philosophers use varied perspectives to address problems surrounding Kant's theories of God and religion.

Author : Bernard M. G. Reardon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000079082

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Kant as Philosophical Theologian by Bernard M. G. Reardon Pdf

This book sets out to present Kant as a theological thinker. His critical philosophy was not only destructive of "natural" theology, with its attempt to prove devine existence by logical argument, it also left no room for "revelation" in the traditional sense. Yet Kant himself, who was brought up in Lutheran pietism, certainly believed in God, and could fairly be described as a religious man. But he held that religion can be based only on the moral consciousness, and in his last major work, "Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone"ódiscussed here in detailóhe interpreted Christianity purely in terms of moral symbolism.

Author : Susan Neiman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691168500

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Evil in Modern Thought by Susan Neiman Pdf

Whether expressed in theological or secular terms, evil poses a problem about the world's intelligibility. It confronts philosophy with fundamental questions: Can there be meaning in a world where innocents suffer? Can belief in divine power or human progress survive a cataloging of evil? Is evil profound or banal? Neiman argues that these questions impelled modern philosophy. Traditional philosophers from Leibniz to Hegel sought to defend the Creator of a world containing evil. Inevitably, their efforts--combined with those of more literary figures like Pope, Voltaire, and the Marquis de Sade--eroded belief in God's benevolence, power, and relevance, until Nietzsche claimed He had been murdered. They also yielded the distinction between natural and moral evil that we now take for granted. Neiman turns to consider philosophy's response to the Holocaust as a final moral evil, concluding that two basic stances run through modern thought. One, from Rousseau to Arendt, insists that morality demands we make evil intelligible. The other, from Voltaire to Adorno, insists that morality demands that we don't.

Author : Michael Rosen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674276048

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The Shadow of God by Michael Rosen Pdf

A bold and beautifully written exploration of the “afterlife” of God, showing how apparently secular habits of mind in fact retain the structure of religious thought. Once in the West, our lives were bounded by religion. Then we were guided out of the darkness of faith, we are often told, by the cold light of science and reason. To be modern was to reject the religious for the secular and rational. In a bold retelling of philosophical history, Michael Rosen explains the limits of this story, showing that many modern and apparently secular ways of seeing the world were in fact profoundly shaped by religion. The key thinkers, Rosen argues, were the German Idealists, as they sought to reconcile reason and religion. It was central to Kant’s philosophy that, if God is both just and assigns us to heaven or hell for eternity, we must know what is required of us and be able to choose freely. In trying to live moral lives, Kant argued, we are engaged in a collective enterprise as members of a “Church invisible” working together to achieve justice in history. As later Idealists moved away from Kant’s ideas about personal immortality, this idea of “historical immortality” took center stage. Through social projects that outlive us we maintain a kind of presence after death. Conceptions of historical immortality moved not just into the universalistic ideologies of liberalism and revolutionary socialism but into nationalist and racist doctrines that opposed them. But how, after global wars and genocide, can we retain faith in any conception of shared moral progress and, if not, what is to become of the idea of historical immortality? That is our present predicament. A seamless blend of philosophy and intellectual history, The Shadow of God is a profound exploration of secular modernity’s theistic inheritance.

Author : Christopher J. Insole
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199677603

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Kant and the Creation of Freedom by Christopher J. Insole Pdf

Kant is a key thinker in the emergence of our contemporary sense of what 'human freedom' is, and why it is important. This book shows that important features of Kant's philosophy were forged out of difficulties he had in reconciling his belief in God as creator with the concept of human freedom.

Author : Uygar Abacı
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192567314

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Kant's Revolutionary Theory of Modality by Uygar Abacı Pdf

Kant's Revolutionary Theory of Modality is a comprehensive study of Immanuel Kant's views on modal notions of possibility, actuality or existence, and necessity. Abacı locates Kant's views on these notions in their broader historical context, establishes their continuity and transformation across Kant's precritical and critical texts, and determines their role in the substance as well as the development of Kant's philosophical project. He makes two overarching claims. First, Kant's precritical views on modality, which appear in the context of his attempts to revise the ontological argument and are critical of the tradition only from within its prevailing paradigm of modality, develop into a revolutionary theory of modality in his critical period, radicalizing his critique of the ontotheological and rationalist metaphysical tradition. While the traditional paradigm construes modal notions as fundamental ontological predicates, expressing different modes or ways of being of things, Kant's theory consists in redefining them as subjective and relational features of our discursivity, expressing different modes in which our conceptual representations of objects are related to our cognitive faculty. Second, this revolutionary theory of modality is not only a crucial component of Kant's critical epistemology and his radical critique of rationalist metaphysics, but it is in fact directly constitutive of the critical turn itself, as Kant originally formulates the latter in terms of a shift from an ontological to an epistemological approach to the question of possibility. Thus, tracing the development of Kant's understanding of modality comes to fruition in an alternative reading of Kant's overall philosophical development.

Author : Sami Pihlström,Sari Kivistö
Publisher : Springer
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319408835

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Kantian Antitheodicy by Sami Pihlström,Sari Kivistö Pdf

This book defends antitheodicism, arguing that theodicies, seeking to excuse God for evil and suffering in the world, fail to ethically acknowledge the victims of suffering. The authors argue for this view using literary and philosophical resources, commencing with Immanuel Kant’s 1791 “Theodicy Essay” and its reading of the Book of Job. Three important twentieth century antitheodicist positions are explored, including “Jewish” post-Holocaust ethical antitheodicism, Wittgensteinian antitheodicism exemplified by D.Z. Phillips and pragmatist antitheodicism defended by William James. The authors argue that these approaches to evil and suffering are fundamentally Kantian. Literary works such as Franz Kafka’s The Trial, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, are examined in order to crucially advance the philosophical case for antitheodicism.