Christopher J Insole

Kant and the Divine

From Contemplation to the Moral Law

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Produktbeschreibung

The philosopher Kant is a key thinker in shaping our contemporary concept of morality, freedom, and happiness. This book argues that Kant believes in God, but that he is not a Christian, and that this opens up an important and neglected dimension of Western Philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9780198853527
• ISBN-10: 0198853521
• Artikelnr.: 58343259

Autorenporträt

After teaching at the Universities of London and Cambridge, Christopher Insole took up his post at Durham in 2006, becoming Professor of Philosophical Theology and Ethics in 2013. He has published extensively on realism and anti-realism, religious epistemology, the relationship between theology, metaphysics, and political philosophy, and on the thought of Immanuel Kant. His books include his major study of Kant's philosophy of religion (Oxford, 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Divine Ideas
2: Contemplating Creation
3: From Freedom to Freedom
4: Searching for the Unconditioned
5: God and the Good
6: The Proper Self
7: Objections: Coherence or Plausibility
8: Contradicting Morality: The Four Examples
9: Egress and Regress: The Categorical Imperative
10: The Identity of Freedom and Morality
11: The Moral World
12: Kant's Consistency: Motivations, Conditions, Constituent Parts, and Consequences
13: Freedom as Guarantor of the Possibility of the Highest Good
14: Does Kant Need Grace?
15: Does Kant Permit Grace?
16: God as an All-knowing Distributor of Happiness
17: The Glorious Community
18: The Two Highest Goods: God and the Kingdom of Ends