Kierkegaard And Kant

Author : Robert Stern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139505017
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Moral Obligation written by Robert Stern and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many histories of modern ethics, Kant is supposed to have ushered in an anti-realist or constructivist turn by holding that unless we ourselves 'author' or lay down moral norms and values for ourselves, our autonomy as agents will be threatened. In this book, Robert Stern challenges the cogency of this 'argument from autonomy', and claims that Kant never subscribed to it. Rather, it is not value realism but the apparent obligatoriness of morality that really poses a challenge to our autonomy: how can this be accounted for without taking away our freedom? The debate the book focuses on therefore concerns whether this obligatoriness should be located in ourselves (Kant), in others (Hegel) or in God (Kierkegaard). Stern traces the historical dialectic that drove the development of these respective theories, and clearly and sympathetically considers their merits and disadvantages; he concludes by arguing that the choice between them remains open.

Author : D. Phillips
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349629065
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant and Kierkegaard on Religion written by D. Phillips and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions of leading Kantian and Kierkegaardian scholars to this collection break down to the simplistic contrast in which Kant is seen as the advocate of a rational moral theology and Kierkegaard as the advocate of an irrationalist faith. This collection is an ideal text for discussion of central issues.

Author : Ronald M. Green
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438404735
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kierkegaard and Kant written by Ronald M. Green and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1992-08-17 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ronald Michael Green
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 0881462551
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant and Kierkegaard on Time and Eternity written by Ronald Michael Green and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on his earlier work, Kierkegaard and Kant: The Hidden Debt, Ronald Green presents Kant as a major inspiration of Kierkegaard¿s authorship. Green believes that Kant¿s ethics provided the rigor on which Kierkegaard drew in developing his concept of sin. Green argues that the chief difference between Kant and Kierkegaard has to do with whether we need a historical savior to restore our broken moral wills. Kant rejected faith in vicarious atonement as undermining moral responsibility, and he pointed to the Genesis 22 episode of Abraham¿s sacrifice of Isaac as an example of how reliance on historical reports can undermine ethics. Kierkegaard rejected Kant¿s rationalist solution to the problem of radical human evil. Kant had demolished the ontological proof by showing that whether something exists (including God) can never be logically deduced. Kierkegaard turns this great insight against Kant: whether God has forgiven our transgressions cannot be deduced from our moral need. Either God did or did not intervene on our behalf. ¿This fact.¿ says Kierkegaard, ¿is the earnestness of existence.¿ Green offers unique readings of Fear and Trembling and Either/Or in his analysis and interpretation of Kierkegaard¿s reading and response to Kant and their understanding of divine and ethics. A closing chapter focuses on love in time. In Works of Love, Kierkegaard places emotional feelings within a transcendent context. Erotic love is noble, but it must be purged of self-love and seek the fulfillment of the beloved as an independent being. Only by assuming ethical and religious meaning can romantic love fulfill its promise of eternity.

Author : Michelle Kosch
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199289115
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom and Reason in Kant, Schelling, and Kierkegaard written by Michelle Kosch and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006-05-25 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces a complex of issues surrounding moral agency from Kant through Schelling to Kierkegaard.

Author : Ulrich Knappe
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110200902
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theory and Practice in Kant and Kierkegaard written by Ulrich Knappe and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work investigates crucial aspects of Kant's epistemology and ethics in relation to Kierkegaard's thinking. The challenge is taken up of developing a systematic reconstruction of Kant's and Kierkegaard's position. Kant forms a matrix for the interpretation of Kierkegaard, and considerable space is devoted to the exposition of Kant at those various points at which contact with Kierkegaard's thought is to be demonstrated. The burden of the argument is that Kierkegaard in his account of the stages is much closer to Kant than the texts initially reveal. It is possible, then, to arrive at a proper grasp of Kierkegaard's final position by seeing just how radically the stage of Christian faith (Religiousness B) departs from Kant.

Author : Roe Fremstedal
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137440880
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kierkegaard and Kant on Radical Evil and the Highest Good written by Roe Fremstedal and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kierkegaard and Kant on Radical Evil and the Highest Good is a major study of Kierkegaard's relation to Kant that gives a comprehensive account of radical evil and the highest good, two controversial doctrines with important consequences for ethics and religion.

Author : Soren Kierkegaard
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061301221
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Works of Love written by Soren Kierkegaard and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1962 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of Soren Kierkegaard's most important writings, Works of Love is a profound examination of the human heart, in which the great philosopher conducts the reader into the inmost secrets of Love. "Deep within every man," Kierkegaard writes, "there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the household of millions upon millions." Love, for Kierkegaard, is one of the central aspects of existence; it saves us from isolation and unites us with one another and with God. This new edition of Works of Love features an original foreword by Kierkegaard scholar George Pattison."

Author : Merold Westphal
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467442291
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kierkegaard's Concept of Faith written by Merold Westphal and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book renowned philosopher Merold Westphal unpacks the writings of nineteenth-century thinker Søren Kierkegaard on biblical, Christian faith and its relation to reason. Across five books — Fear and Trembling, Philosophical Fragments, Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Sickness Unto Death, and Practice in Christianity — and three pseudonyms, Kierkegaard sought to articulate a biblical concept of faith by approaching it from a variety of perspectives in relation to one another. Westphal offers a careful textual reading of these major discussions to present an overarching analysis of Kierkegaard’s conception of the true meaning of biblical faith. Though Kierkegaard presents a complex picture of faith through his pseudonyms, Westphal argues that his perspective is a faithful and illuminating one, making claims that are important for philosophy of religion, for theology, and most of all for Christian life as it might be lived by faithful people.

Author : Gene Fendt
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For what May I Hope? written by Gene Fendt and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For What May I Hope? is a dramatic exhibition of the place of hope in Philosophy. It presents hope's centrality in Kant's philosophy and dramatizes its final breakdown. It then shows how hope plays in various characters of Kierkegaard's authorship. The text dramatizes, as well, the hopes of writing - especially philosophical and scientific writing - and plays on the hopes of readers.