By Immanuel Kant
This quantity collects for the 1st time in one quantity all of Kant's writings on faith and rational theology. those works have been written in the course of a interval of clash among Kant and the Prussian specialists over his non secular teachings. The ancient context and development of this clash are charted within the common advent to the amount and within the translators' introductions to specific texts. the entire translations are new aside from The clash of the schools, the place the interpretation has been revised and redited to comply to the information of the Cambridge version.
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It is the same way with moral feeling, which does not cause any moral law, for this arises wholly from reason; rather, it is caused or effected by moral laws, hence by reason, because the active yet free will needs determinate grounds. P Sittlichkeit q for sich , Moralitat , Princip 12 WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO ORIENT ONESELF IN THINKING? itself alone' it constitutes the whole determining ground of our judgment about the existence of the highest being, and its use as a means of orientation in attempts to speculate on this same subject is only contingent, so Mendelssohn erred here in that he nevertheless trusted speculation to the extent of letting it alone settle everything on the path of demonstration.
Failing here, you will become unworthy of this freedom, and you will surely forfeit it too; and besides that you will bring the same misfortune down on the heads of other, innocent parties who would otherwise have been well disposed and would have used their freedom lawfully and hence in a way which is conducive d to what is best for the world! * Thinkingfor oneself means seeking the supreme touchstone of truth in oneself (Le. in one's own reason); and the maxim of always thinking for oneself is enlightenment.
E. of human beings (higher spiritual beings as well, good or evil, as the case may be). The author of a theodicy agrees, therefore, that this juridical process be instituted before the tribunal of reason; he further consents to represent the accused side as advocate through the formal refutation of all the plaintiff's complaints; he is not therefore allowed to dismiss the latter in the course of the process of law through a decree of incompetency of the tribunal of human reason (exceptio fln),!