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Immanuel Kant a protestantyzm
Kant and Protestantism

Author(s): Tomasz Kupś
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Philosophy, Theology and Religion, Philosophy of Religion, Other Christian Denominations
Published by: Parafia Ewangelicko-Augsburska (Luterańska) w Gdańsku-Sopocie
Keywords: Immanuel Kant; philosophy of religion; critique of religion; Protestantism; Deus in nobis;

Summary/Abstract: The relationships between Kant’s philosophy and Protestantism are still the subject of studies and new findings. Contemporarily, the univocal and enthusiastic identification of Kantian philosophy with Lutheran anthropology and eschatology, typical for nineteenth-century historians, has been evaluated much more critically. Paulsen’s claim that Kant was a “philosopher of Protestantism” is not received without reservation. Some analogies with the foundations of Luther’s reform can be recognised in Kant’s polemic with religious metaphysics. However, Kant’s philosophy of religion seems to be a kind of continuation of the reformation spirit in the field of philosophy, but not only a legitimisation of the religious reform which in the 18th century were already fossilised and out of date.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 137-148
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish