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On Kant's Religious Philosophy

Posted on:2007-12-03Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S L LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360185984807Subject:Foreign philosophy
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Kant examined all aspects of humanity in critically, he essentially attributed the question to two aspects: the rational and religious. To understand what the problem is, we must answer what the antithesis, the God is? This is the religious philosophy of Kant. Thus rational thinking and religious thinking are two themes of Kant. Rational thought is a bright line, consistent, and religious thinking is a dark line, and become clearer as explored in depth gradually.The main idea explore the origination, formation, development history and identity of Kant religious philosophy. First it attempt to illustrate that the family of Kant school social impacted his religious idea. Kant is a very complex figure, on the one hand, he advocated science against religion, on the other hand, his life was deeply impacted by religion. Family environment easily let the moral centered in his ideological formation, so that he opposed to the God but he could not deprive it; He stressed science and rationality, and recognized the God's value in the area of moral. All these laid Kant's "Copernicus revolution" of religious thinking on the ground. Secondly it explore religious philosophy in the entire development process of Kant's philosophical system. Before critical period the rational and religious issues were considered at the same time. In the first critique, he excluded the God out of the scientific scope, and left site for the existence of God. In the second critique, he believed that religion is the foundation of moral and the God is the inference of moral rational, the guarantee of a person arriving at "perfection". Based on the theory of moral he completed the reconstruction of religious, and achieved "Copernicus Revolution" of the religion. In Judgment Critique the aesthetic ideas provided reconciling and harmonious thinking for religion in further explain. Based on this thinking, Kant reconciled traditional thinking and rational thinking, and made traditional religious ideas and religious beliefs reconcile.Kant religious ideology originated, on the one hand from the nature of human, in confusion and uncertainty generated from the finite nature pursuit the unlimited ideas; On the other hand from the traditional philosophy of the west, traditional western...
Keywords/Search Tags:Kant, religious philosophy, rational, scientific, moral, God, Copernicus revolution
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