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Palmquist's Commentary provides the first definitive
clarification on Kant's Philosophy of Religion in English; it
includes the full text of Pluhar's translation, interspersed
with explanations, providing both a detailed overview and an
original interpretation of Kant's work.
Offers definitive, sentence-level commentary on Kant's
Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason
Presents a thoroughly revised version of Pluhar's
translation of the full text of Kant's Religion, including
detailed notes comparing the translation with the others still in
use today
Identifies most of the several hundred changes Kant made to the
second (1794) edition and unearths evidence that many major changes
were responses to criticisms of the first edition
Provides both a detailed overview and original interpretation
of Kant's work on the philosophy of religion
Demonstrates that Kant's arguments in Religion are
not only cogent, but have clear and profound practical applications
to the way religion is actually practiced in the world today
Includes a glossary aimed at justifying new translations of key
technical terms in Religion, many of which have previously
neglected religious and theological implications
Auteur
Stephen R. Palmquist is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Hong Kong Baptist University. He lectures on a wide variety of subjects in the fields of philosophy, psychology, and religious studies. Palmquist has written numerous scholarly articles on various aspects of Kant's philosophy, and has published 10 books, the most recent of which is Cultivating Personhood: Kant and Asian Philosophy (2010). In addition to Kant, his research interests include depth psychology, philosophy of love, philosophical anthropology, mysticism, logic of symbolism, theology of politics, and philosophy of religion.
Résumé
Palmquist's Commentary provides the first definitive clarification on Kant's Philosophy of Religion in English; it includes the full text of Pluhar's translation, interspersed with explanations, providing both a detailed overview and an original interpretation of Kant's work.
Contenu
Preface x
Acknowledgments xxiii
Abbreviations xxvi
Introduction: The Hermeneutic Background to Kant's Religion: The Two Prefaces (R 314) 1
Kant's private beliefs and the writing of Religion 1
The 1793 Preface: (A) Religion as the final purpose of morality 7
The 1793 Preface: (B) Unifying philosophical and biblical theology 21
The 1794 Preface: Two experiments and Kant's responses to critics 31
Part I: Human Nature's Transcendental Problem: Evil and the Boundary of Goodness (First Piece) 41
1 The Original Goodness of Human Nature: Introduction, Comment, and Section I (R 1928) 43
Untitled introduction: Is humanity good or evil by nature? 43
Comment: (A) Why moral neutrality is impossible 51
Comment: (B) Could humans be partly good and partly evil? 59
Section I: Human nature's original predisposition is good 63
2 The Propensity to Evil in Human Nature: Sections II and III (R 2839) 72
Section II: (A) Three sources of moral evil 72
Section II: (B) Defining evil as a perversion of moral reasoning 78
Section III: (A) Empirical evil and its origin on the boundary 83
Section III: (B) The need for (and form of) an a priori proof 92
3 Evil's Rational Origin and the Hope for Recovery: Sections IV and V (R 3952) 106
Section IV: (A) Transcendental versus empirical origins 106
Section IV: (B) Assessing the Bible's account of evil's origin 112
Section V: (A) Divine aid and conversion's possibility 120
Section V: (B) God's role in transforming moral character 133
Appendix I: Experiencing the Effects of Grace against Evil: The First General Comment (R 523) 144
Part II: The Individual's Logical Struggle: The Power of Belief in Divine Aid (Second Piece) 151
4 The Personified Idea of the Good Principle: Introduction and Section One, Subsections A and B (R 5766) 153
Untitled introduction: How to distinguish evil from good 153
Section One, A: The archetype of perfection as a divine gift 161
Section One, B: (A) Becoming exemplary via practical faith 166
Section One, B: (B) An archetypal person's twofold nature 169
5 Legitimizing Hope in Divine Grace: Section One, Subsection C (R 6678) 179
First difficulty: How can imperfect beings become holy? 179
Second difficulty: Can we be certain of our eternal destiny? 183
Third difficulty: How can God punish pre?]conversion evil? 195
Overview: Grace as the basis for a legal claim to being good 207
6 Biblical Symbols of the Struggle with Evil: Section Two (R 7884) 215
The Genesis narrative on evil's legal claim to dominion 215
Advent of a unique person, free from the propensity to evil 218
In what sense does the crucifixion defeat the power of evil? 223
The narrative's rational meaning 227
Appendix II: Experiencing Miracles as Self?]Negating: The Second General Comment (R 849) 233
Part III: The Community's Empirical Victory: The Church as Historical Vehicle for Good (Third Piece) 249
7 The Founding of a True Church: Introduction and Division One, Sections IV (R 93109) 251
Untitled introduction: Hope for victory in struggling with evil 251
Division One, Sections IIII: Founding the ethical community 255
i. Sections I and II: The duty to leave the state of nature 255
ii. Section III: An ethical community requires God 263
i. Section IV: The four requirements for church organization 267
ii. Section V: Every true church begins as a revelation faith 273
8 Interpreting Religious Ideas in a Church: Division One, Sections VIVII (R 10924) 288
Division One, Section VI: (A) Interpretations must be moral 288
Division One, Section VI: (B) Nonmoral Interpretive Methods 294 i. Scriptural scholarship is secondary to the moral...