The Role of the Sublime in Kant’s Religion: Moral Motivation and Empirical Possibility
I show that Kant’s depiction of the christic figure in Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason is not contingent but explains how this figure functions in two essential ways: as a representation of a maximum of morality that can ground our moral disposition and in so doing acts as a standard f...
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Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University
2020-01-01
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| description | I show that Kant’s depiction of the christic figure in Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason is not contingent but explains how this figure functions in two essential ways: as a representation of a maximum of morality that can ground our moral disposition and in so doing acts as a standard for morality. More precisely, the following argument is made: 1) the sublime nature of the image of Christ — as an image of universal respect for the law — awakens the moral feeling of subjects in the sense of the possibility of overcoming one’s perverted nature; 2) as moral perfection it provides immediate transparency to the end goal of morality; 3) just as in the case of associative construction of empirical concepts, the sublime provides the prototype for association through which empirical acts are determined as moral ones; 4) the image of Christ also acts as motivator by encompassing said transparency and standard in the idea of moral perfection. These four points show that the image of Christ functions in a dual manner. Points 1) to 3) address Christ as a prototype/archetype (Urbild) — awakening and making possible a moral redefinition of the subject — while point 4) addresses Christ as an example (Vorbild) — sustaining and entertaining the moral redefinition as a motivating model. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-54fb641d64a24e44940f5761507440442022-12-22T01:15:53ZdeuImmanuel Kant Baltic Federal UniversityКантовский сборник0207-69182310-37012020-01-01391315710.5922/0207-6918-2020-1-2The Role of the Sublime in Kant’s Religion: Moral Motivation and Empirical PossibilitySandru A. R.0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1415-0160University of TübingenI show that Kant’s depiction of the christic figure in Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason is not contingent but explains how this figure functions in two essential ways: as a representation of a maximum of morality that can ground our moral disposition and in so doing acts as a standard for morality. More precisely, the following argument is made: 1) the sublime nature of the image of Christ — as an image of universal respect for the law — awakens the moral feeling of subjects in the sense of the possibility of overcoming one’s perverted nature; 2) as moral perfection it provides immediate transparency to the end goal of morality; 3) just as in the case of associative construction of empirical concepts, the sublime provides the prototype for association through which empirical acts are determined as moral ones; 4) the image of Christ also acts as motivator by encompassing said transparency and standard in the idea of moral perfection. These four points show that the image of Christ functions in a dual manner. Points 1) to 3) address Christ as a prototype/archetype (Urbild) — awakening and making possible a moral redefinition of the subject — while point 4) addresses Christ as an example (Vorbild) — sustaining and entertaining the moral redefinition as a motivating model.https://journals.kantiana.ru/kant_collection/4459/23869/kantreligion within the boundaries of mere reasonsublimechristmoral motivationdispositionempirical morality |
| spellingShingle | Sandru A. R. The Role of the Sublime in Kant’s Religion: Moral Motivation and Empirical Possibility Кантовский сборник kant religion within the boundaries of mere reason sublime christ moral motivation disposition empirical morality |
| title | The Role of the Sublime in Kant’s Religion: Moral Motivation and Empirical Possibility |
| title_full | The Role of the Sublime in Kant’s Religion: Moral Motivation and Empirical Possibility |
| title_fullStr | The Role of the Sublime in Kant’s Religion: Moral Motivation and Empirical Possibility |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Role of the Sublime in Kant’s Religion: Moral Motivation and Empirical Possibility |
| title_short | The Role of the Sublime in Kant’s Religion: Moral Motivation and Empirical Possibility |
| title_sort | role of the sublime in kant s religion moral motivation and empirical possibility |
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