GERMAN

Kants Vorsehungskonzept auf dem Hintergrund der deutschen Schulphilosophie und -theologie

By Ulrich L. Lehner

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
9789004156074, 9004156070, 9789047419181
Open Library ID
OL9085857M
Language
german
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2635696 bytes)
Series
Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 149
Pages
532\545
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

It is widely agreed that protestant scholasticism influenced Kant's thinking on the question of Divine Providence. But the nature and extent of that influence have never been explored in detail. This is the scholarly lacuna the present volume seeks to fill. It shows how Kant, from his pre-Critical period onward, grappled with the concept of Divine Providence, sought to subjectivize and naturalize it, and how protestant scholasticism played an important role, both positive and negative, in this endeavor. It also makes clear how this critical philosophical conversation gave rise to a powerful notion of the progress of the human species - a vital part of the Enlightenment's enduring legacy. This study thus provides not only a unique theological philosophical overview of 18th-century speculation on the question of Divine Providence; it also sheds important new light on the significance of the German Enlightenment.

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