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The Study On Kant's Thought Of Humanity

Posted on:2011-01-18Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X H YiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360302498005Subject:Ethics
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Ancient times and today, since the beginning of human civilization, human nature is an ancient but always new and full of vitality issues in the history of western and eastern ethical thoughts. Different opinions on this issue and has not stopped too. Human nature for thousands of years has been plagued by human beings, without a clear conclusion.Kant's philosophy is the flower of human wisdom, based on the ideological nourishment, and the product of its critical inheritance. As an Overriding the ancients, a great thinker, he initiated a "Copernican revolution" is one of humanity's revolutionary theory of knowledge, but also human moral, religious thought revolution. Kant's philosophy as a whole mainly researches into the problem of people, like "What is the man?" has been a general problem of Kant's critical philosophy.This article focuses on the nature of Kant's thought. Starting from Hobbes, Helvetius's naturalistic human nature thought, and affirming the foundation role of Hume and Rousseau's Emotional Human Nature thought to Kant. Subsequently, starting from this fundamental evil in human nature; how to change evil to good and the destination of good deeds--"excellence" the three parts, from the perspective of static and dynamic understanding of Kant's human nature thought---the Good, the Bad and the struggle of two forces, then a more detailed interpretation of the Kant's rationalism concept of human nature. Kant demonstrated how to use the relationship between religion and human nature to solve how to give up evil for good, and further confirms Kant's rationality of the moral and religion of reason. Finally, the article discusses the two points that is Augustine, as presented, Kant criticized and inherited his medieval religious thought, and Kant human nature religious thought influenced on Germanic classical philosophy. In the growing crisis of contemporary moral culture today, we do the research Kant's human nature, religious thought, no doubt in our contemporary religious argument, there is a reasonable belief, and reshaping moral effect with valuable feedback.
Keywords/Search Tags:Kant, rationality, humanity, religion
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