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Kant and Belief in God

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A Philosophy of Human Hope

Part of the book series: Studies in Philosophy and Religion ((STPAR,volume 9))

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The purpose of this chapter is to survey the principal Kantian themes and arguments that relate hope and theism. More precisely — since earlier treatment of Kant developed his understandings of hope — the present section attends to his position and arguments bearing on what hope’s intelligibility requires in the matter of God. This chapter initiates a dialogue between Kant’s approach and that of this essay concerning hope’s implications for theism.

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  1. Wood, Kant’s Moral Religion, p. 132.

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  2. On “interest” in Kant and the Critique of Practical Reason, see Beck, Commentary, pp. 249–50; cf. KpV 119–20, CPrR 124.

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  3. See Beck, Commentary, pp. 217, 255–56.

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  4. Wood, Kant’s Moral Religion, p. 162, quoting from Kant’s Lectures on Ethics, trans. Louis Infield (New York: Harper & Row, 1963), p. 95.

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  5. Wood argues (pp. 166–67) against taking faith as a means in Kant’s thought; but it does seem that Kant has God as a means.

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  6. Lucien Goldmann, Immanuel Kant, trans. Robert Black (London: NLB, 1971), p. 198.

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  7. Lucien Goldmann, Immanuel Kant, trans. Robert Black (London: NLB, 1971), p. 199.

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  8. See, for example, Emil L. Fackenheim, “Kant’s Concept of History,” Kant-Studien 48 (1956–57): 381–98.

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  1. Saint Joseph’s University, USA

    Joseph J. Godfrey

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Godfrey, J.J. (1987). Kant and Belief in God. In: Godfrey, J.J. (eds) A Philosophy of Human Hope. Studies in Philosophy and Religion, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3499-3_18

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