Friday, June 10, 2011
Ratioal or Revealed Religion
We concluded our last class with Professor Vaught insisting on a distinction between rational religion and revealed religion. Besides the theoretical distinction, what is the actual difference practically between these two notions? Rational religion is understood to mean a set of conclusions which is arrived at through reason. Given principles about man the world and the history of humanity Kant investigates the consequences of these principles. This use of reason is essentially what yields to notions like the universal moral imperative and radical evil. Now in revealed religion these same notions are received through revelation. It seems possible that these two approaches to religion can yield the same notions and principles. What then is the actual difference between them?
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It seems the difference is precisely not qualitative but rather only in the way in which we arrive at such notions. Kant will see this as a benefit to the progress of the unity of humanity. It would be helpful to know what the role of reason itself is, for Kant, within the realm of revealed religion. Is it on par with the idea of god?
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