If God’s Existence is Unprovable, Then is Everything Permitted? Kant, Radical Agnosticism, and Morality
If God’s Existence is Unprovable, Then is Everything Permitted? Kant, Radical Agnosticism, and Morality
Author(s): Robert HannaSubject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Kant; ontological argument; God; existence; freedom; agency; morality
Summary/Abstract: This essay is about how four deeply important Kantian ideas can significantly illuminate some essentially intertwined issues in philosophical theology, philosophical logic, the metaphysics of agency, and above all, morality. These deeply important Kantian ideas are: (1) Kant’s argument for the impossibility of the Ontological Argument, (2) Kant’s first “postulate of pure practical reason,” immortality, (3) Kant’s third postulate of pure practical reason, the existence of God, and finally (4) Kant’s second postulate of pure practical reason, freedom.
Journal: Diametros
- Issue Year: 2014
- Issue No: 39
- Page Range: 29-69
- Page Count: 41
- Language: English