The role of divine grace in Kant's rational religion.
Kant's rational religion has been described as a failure because his idea of redemption contains contradictory appeals to human responsibility and divine assistance. For example, John Hare has argued that Kant cannot explain how human beings can bridge a moral gap between an ideal state of virtue an...
| Publicado en: | International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Vol. 97; no. 2; pp. 107 - 126 |
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Apr2025
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