Kant: Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
Kant: <I>Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason</I>
And Other Writings
Immanuel Kant
Allen Wood , Yale University, Connecticut
George di Giovanni , McGill University, Montréal
Robert Merrihew Adams , Yale University, Connecticut
Allen Wood , Yale University, Connecticut
George di Giovanni , McGill University, Montréal
Robert Merrihew Adams , Yale University, Connecticut
January 1999
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9780521599641Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason, a work of major importance in the history of Western religious thought, represents a great philosopher's attempt to spell out the form and content of a type of religion that would be grounded in moral reason and would meet the needs of ethical life. This volume presents it, together with three short essays that illuminate it, in a new translation by Allen Wood and George di Giovanni, with an introduction by Robert Merrihew Adams that locates this essential essay in its historical and philosophical context.
- Work of major importance for Kant studies and the history of Western religious thought
- Distinguished new translation
- Useful notes, chronology and guide to further reading
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"… provocative and insightful … a new, comprehensive interpretation of Kant’s difficult book."
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion
Product details
January 1999Hardback
9780521590495
272 pages
237 × 158 × 23 mm
0.555kg
Replaced by 9780521599641
Table of Contents
- What does it mean to orient oneself in thinking?
- On the miscarriage of all philosophical trials in theodicy
- Religion within the boundaries of mere reason
- The end of all things.
