Religion Within the Bounds of Bare Reason

Contents......Page 4
Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 2
Copyright......Page 3
Errata......Page 5
TRANSLATOR\'S PREFACE......Page 6
1. THE RELIGIOUS CONTEXT OF KANT\'S LIFE: CONFLICTS OF HEART AND MIND......Page 8
2. THE PLACE OF RELIGION IN KANT\'S PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEM......Page 10
A. PREFACES: THE CONFLICT BETWEEN BIBLICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGIANS......Page 12
B. FIRST PIECE: EVIL AS THE TRANSCENDENTAL ROOT OF RATIONAL RELIGION......Page 13
C. SECOND PIECE: GRACE AS REASON\'S LOGICAL POWER TO COMBAT EVIL......Page 14
D. THIRD PIECE: CHURCH AS THE EMPIRICALREALIZATION OF TRUE RELIGION......Page 17
E. FOURTH PIECE: SERVICE AS A HYPOTHETICAL WAY OF PLEASING GOD......Page 20
F. FOUR GENERAL COMMENTS: THEOLOGICAL SUPPLEMENTS TO RATIONAL RELIGION......Page 22
4. IMPLICATIONS AND ENDURING RELEVANCE OF KANT\'S RELIGION......Page 23
Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason......Page 26
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION......Page 28
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION......Page 33
CONTENTS......Page 35
1. FIRST PIECE - ON THE INHERENCE OF THE EVIL ALONGSIDE THE GOOD PRINCIPLE, OR, ON THE RADICAL EVIL IN HUMAN NATURE......Page 36
Comment......Page 39
I. ON THE ORIGINAL PREDISPOSITION INHUMAN NATURE TO THE GOOD......Page 41
II. ON THE PROPENSITY TO EVIL IN HUMAN NATURE......Page 43
III. THE HUMAN BEING IS EVIL BY NATURE -Vitus nemo sine nascitur. Horace.......Page 45
IV. ON THE ORIGIN OF EVIL IN HUMAN NATURE......Page 50
General Comment -On Restoring the Original Predisposition to the Good to Its Power......Page 53
2. SECOND PIECE - ON THE STRUGGLE OF THE GOOD WITH THE EVIL PRINCIPLE FOR DOMINION OVER THE HUMAN BEING......Page 60
A. The Personified Idea of the Good Principle......Page 62
B. Objective Reality of This Idea......Page 63
C. Difficulties Opposing the Reality of This Idea, and Their Solution......Page 66
SECTION TWO - ON THE LEGAL CLAIM OF THE EVIL PRINCIPLE TO DOMINION OVER THE HUMAN BEING, AND THE STRUGGLE OF THE TWO PRINCIPLES WITH EACH OTHER......Page 73
General Comment......Page 76
3. THIRD PIECE:  THE VICTORY OF THE GOOD OVER THE EVIL PRINCIPLE AND THE FOUNDING OF A KINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH......Page 81
I. On the Ethical State of Nature......Page 82
II. The Human Being Ought to Leave the Ethical State of Nature in order to Become a Member of an Ethical Community......Page 83
III. The Concept of an Ethical Community Is the Concept of a People of God under Ethical Laws......Page 84
IV. The Idea of a People of God Cannot (by Human Arrangement) Be Carried Out Except in the Form of a Church......Page 85
V. The Constitution of Any Church Always Starts from Some Historical (Revelation) Faith, Which May Be Called Church Faith, and This Is Best Founded on a Holy Scripture......Page 86
VI. Church Faith Has Pure Religious Faith as Its Highest Interpreter......Page 90
VII. The Gradual Transition of Church Faith to the Autarchy of Pure Religious Faith Is the Approach of the Kingdom of God......Page 93
DIVISION TWO -HISTORICAL PRESENTATION OF THE GRADUAL FOUNDING OF THE DOMINION OF THE GOOD PRINCIPLE ON EARTH......Page 99
General Comment......Page 106
IV. FOURTH PIECE: ON SERVICE AND PSEUDOSERVICE  UNDER THE DOMINION OF THE GOOD PRINCIPLE, OR, ON RELIGION AND PRIESTERY......Page 114
PART ONE - ON THE SERVICE OF GOD IN A RELIGION AS SUCH......Page 116
SECTION ONE - The Christian Religion as a Natural Religion......Page 117
SECTION TWO - The Christian Religion as a Scholarly Religion......Page 121
PART TWO - ON THE PSEUDOSERVICE OF GOD IN A STATUTORY RELIGION......Page 124
§ 1. On the Universal Subjective Basis of Religious Delusion......Page 125
§ 2. The Moral Principle of Religion Opposite to Religious Delusion......Page 126
§ 3. On Priestery as a Governance in the Pseudoservice of the Good Principle......Page 129
§ 4. On the Guiding Thread of Conscience in Matters of Faith......Page 135
General Comment......Page 138
Glossary......Page 143
Selected Bibliography......Page 148
Index......Page 157