Kant and the creation of freedom : a theological problem / Christopher J. Insole.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Insole, Christopher J.

Series:

Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology

Changing paradigms in historical and systematic theology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Liberty.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Kant is a key thinker in the emergence of our contemporary sense of what 'human freedom' is, and why it is important. This book shows that important features of Kant's philosophy were forged out of difficulties he had in reconciling his belief in God as creator with the concept of human freedom.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Method of Citation; 1. Introduction; 2. The Creation; Logical and Real Possibility; God Necessarily Creates the Best Really Possible World; Divine Freedom and the Holy Will; 3. Is God Free?; Is the Divine Nature External or Internal to the Divine Will?; Are Goodness and Rationality External or Internal to the Divine Nature?; God, Freedom, and Contingency: Rae Langton's Alternative Interpretation; A Framing Interpretative Question: What Is the Problem with Freedom?; 4. The Problem; Kant's Pre-Critical Compatibilism; Kant Reads Rousseau

Kant on Created Freedom in The Only Possible Argument (1763)The Silent Decade: the 1770s; Karl Ameriks's 'Argument from Restraint'; Is Transcendental Freedom Necessary for Perfect Freedom?; Patrick Kain on the Coherence of Kant's Account of Divine and Human Freedom; The Fundamental Theological Question: Is God an Alien and External Cause?; 5. The Solution; The Interpretation of Transcendental Idealism; Noumenal First Causation; Pure and Phenomenal Substance; A Question of Plausibility; 6. Incoherence; The Plausibility of Atemporal First Causation

The Origin of Evil and the Incoherence of Noumenal First Causation7. Belief; The Impossibility of Theoretical Knowledge about God and Noumenal Freedom; Practical Warrant for Knowledge of Freedom and Belief in God; Non-Moral Grounds for Doctrinal Belief in God; The Rationalist Conception of God in Kant's Critical Philosophy; Kant's Realism about God and Noumenal Freedom; Belief and Acceptance; Opinion, Belief or Faith, and Knowledge; The Case for Belief-in-Truth; The Case for Mere Acceptance-as-True; Belief in God 'Can Therefore often Waver': Towards the Opus Postumum

8. Creating the Kingdom of EndsAppearances are not Creations; Kant's Argument from Divine Impassibility to Transcendental Idealism; The Kingdom of Ends; Schleiermacher, Transcendental Freedom, and Absolute Dependence upon God; A Theological Distinction: Creation and Production; 9. Concurrence; Occasionalism, Mere Conservation, and Concurrence; Kant on Concurrence in Nature; Concurrence and Freedom; Concurrence and Compatibilism; Concurrence and the Shift in Kant's Account of Created Freedom; 10. Legacy; The Debate around Concurrentism: Grammarians and Theoreticians

Recent Theological Reception of Kant: An 'Affirmative' TrendGrace and Atonement; The Final Twist: Kant as Concurrentist; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 26, 2013).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-875519-8

0-19-166533-9

OCLC:

922971942