Abstract: Kant's reasons for inquiring into the radical evil in human nature are very different from those that might now lead us to ask questions about evil. The aim of Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason was to explain to an audience of Christians (of eighteenth-century Lutherans) how their faith might be reconciled with a rational Enlightenment morality. Radical evil is the book's point of departure because of the religious importance of the Christian doctrine of sin. In Part One of the Religion, Kant's aim is to articulate that doctrine in rationalistic terms, so as to show in the other three parts how the Christian doctrines of justification and atonement, as well as the function of the church and revelation, might be articulated within the framework of a moral philosophy based on the autonomy of reason.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-12-24
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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