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Kant's Philosophy of Religion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

D. M. MacKinnon
D. M. MacKinnon
Affiliation:
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
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It was in 1792 that Kant published the first Book of his most important single work on the philosophy of religion—Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone. But it was his very interesting treatment of the biblical material in the second Book that involved the philosopher in his one serious conflict with official authority. Greene and Hudson give a good account of this conflict and its effect on the work as a whole in the introduction to their translation of Religion in the Harper Torchbook Series (1960).

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Philosophy , Volume 50 , Issue 192 , April 1975 , pp. 131 - 144
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1975

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References

1 All page references in this article are to this translation: likewise all quotations are from it.

2 Cf. Butler's sermon on Self-Deception.

3 In his book La Philosophie Religieuse de Kant (Aubier, 1970).Google Scholar

4 Greene, and Hudson, , p. 43.Google Scholar

5 Bernard, 's translation, p. 319 ff.Google Scholar

6 Bennett, Jonathan, Locke, Berkeley, Hume (pp. 120 ff.)Google Scholar. It will be realized that I go beyond what Professor Bennett suggests in finding an analogue with Kant's distinction, and indeed in what a strict interpretation of Locke may enjoin.