newsWorkshop “Idea of God, Morality and Religious Practice. Kant’s Critical Philosophy of Religion Revisited”
Kant’s philosophy of religion is perceived very differently, often skeptically: Some celebrate it, following Heinrich Heine, as the act of an intellectual revolutionary who “decapitated” God. Others criticize Kant’s half-heartedness, saying that he did not consistently apply his own sapere aude principle to religion. Finally, the interpretation of Kant’s philosophy of religion as moral pedagogy […]Kant’s philosophy of religion is perceived very differently, often skeptically: Some celebrate it, following Heinrich Heine, as the act of an intellectual revolutionary who “decapitated” God. Others criticize Kant’s half-heartedness, saying that he did not consistently apply his own sapere aude principle to religion. Finally, the interpretation of Kant’s philosophy of religion as moral pedagogy […]