Description: Kant and the Divine : From Contemplation to the Moral Law, Hardcover by Insole, Christopher J., ISBN 0198853521, ISBN-13 9780198853527, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Th offers a definitive study of the development of Kants conception of the highest good, from his earliest work, to his dying days. Insole argues that Kant believes in God, but that Kant is not a Christian, and that this opens up an important and neglected dimension of Western
Philosophy.
Kant is not a Christian, because he cannot accept Christianitys traditional claims about the relationship between divine action, grace, human freedom and happiness. Christian theologians who continue to affirm these traditional claims (and many do), therefore have grounds to be suspicious of Kant
as an interpreter of Christian doctrine.
As well as setting out a theological critique of Kant, Insole offers a new defence of the power, beauty, and internal coherence of Kants non-Christian philosophical religiosity, within the limits of reason alone, which reason itself has some divine features. This neglected strand of philosophical
religiosity deserves to be engaged with by both philosophers, and theologians. The Kant revealed in this book reminds us of a perennial task of philosophy, going back to Plato, where philosophy is construed as a way of life, oriented towards happiness, achieved through a properly expansive
conception of reason and happiness. When we understand this philosophical religiosity, many standard problems in the interpretation of Kant can be seen in a new light, and resolved. Kant witnesses to a strand of philosophy that leans into the category of the divine, at the edges of what we can say
about reason, freedom, autonomy, and happiness.
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Book Title: Kant and the Divine : From Contemplation to the Moral Law
Number of Pages: 416 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Kant and the Divine : from Contemplation to the Moral Law
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2020
Subject: General
Item Height: 1.1 in
Item Weight: 26.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.1 in
Subject Area: Philosophy
Author: Christopher J. Insole
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
