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4 - Jacobi and Kant

Freedom, Reason, Faith

from Part I - The Critique of Reason: Debates on Rationalism, Empiricism, and Skepticism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2023

By
James J. DiCenso
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Alexander J. B. Hampton
Alexander J. B. Hampton
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Summary

Jacobi argues that although Spinoza produced the most consistent rational system, its complete rational explanation leads to fatalism, mechanism, and atheism. The concern in this chapter is with how Jacobi stimulates Kant on issues of faith in relation to autonomy and practical reason (ethics), and how Kant’s “moral faith” seeks to avoid the pitfalls of mechanism while integrally linking faith with reason.

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JacobiKantfreedomreasonfaithepistemologypractical reasonmoral law
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Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the Ends of the Enlightenment
Religion, Philosophy, and Reason at the Crux of Modernity
 , pp. 66 - 84
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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