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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.
List of contents
- 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
About the author
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).
Summary
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.
