RELG 255 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Immanuel Kant, Philosophical Theology, Deism

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 255
• Professor: Jim Kanaris

Document Summary

A field developed after kant that became a sub-discipline of philosophy called "philosophy of religion" Por manage themes that organized many issues philosophers and theologians wrestled with since medieval times up to and including. Kant"s categorical refusal to confuse faith and reason. Rational (natural) religion suffered a setback with the skeptical philosophy of. Dislodge the metaphysics of deism from the work of science. Restoration of faith as contributing to practical reason (ethics), not pure theoretical reason (science), comes with immanuel kant. He defined and defended the limits of reason (what reason does and can"t know) in order to make room for faith. Faith is not in the business of objective knowledge, empirical r metaphysical, but in the business of subjective (now: practical) knowledge.