Kant’s coherent theory of the highest good
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, cilt.89, sa.3, ss.263-283, 2021 (AHCI, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 89 Sayı: 3
- Basım Tarihi: 2021
- Doi Numarası: 10.1007/s11153-020-09782-8
- Dergi Adı: International Journal for Philosophy of Religion
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, IBZ Online, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Periodicals Index Online, ATLA Religion Database, Humanities Abstracts, Philosopher's Index
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.263-283
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Kant, The highest good, The moral world, God, Immortality of the soul, Freedom
- Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır
Özet
In the second Critique, Kant argues that for the highest good to be possible we need to postulate the existence of God and the immortality of the soul in a future world. In his other writings, however, he suggests that the highest good is attainable through mere human agency in this world. Based on the apparent incoherence between these texts, Andrews Reath, among others, argues that Kant’s texts reveal two competing conceptions of the highest good, namely a secular and a theological conception. In this paper, I argue that Kant has a coherent conception of the highest good which applies to two different domains, namely the domain of the individual humans and the domain of the human species.