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• Title:
  God and Religion of the Enlightened Man According to Kant
• Creator:
  Panasiuk, Ryszard
• Contributor:
  Gensler, Marek;
  Gralińska-Toborek, Agnieszka;
  Kazimierska-Jerzyk, Wioletta;
  Kędziora, Krzysztof;
  Miksa, Joanna;
  Professor Emeritus. Uniwersytet Łódzki
• Description:
  Having revealed an illusion of man’s cognitive efforts, Kant sealed the progress of enlightenment inscribed into a historical process, with a deep conviction that an ancient Greek prescription to “know thyself” was finally fulfilled. A man became aware of being equipped with a mind, and accordingly, with freedom as well as the ability to act morally, still remaining a finite natural being with limited cognitive skills. This critical self-knowledge of an enlightened man relieved him of his nonage to open his eyes for a new vision of both the world and a man himself regarded as a self-conscious subject and active creator of his fate. The character and ontological status of religious beliefs, the enlightened man confesses, are in fact defined by the famous Kantian formula: as if (als ob). Driven by moral reasons, they are distinguished with a rationality for which a fundamental value is the Highest Good, purely rationalistic construction, a kind of God thought to be an essential being and a ration for existence of the phenomenal world.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 ;
  Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Międzynarodowe
• Date:
  2022.06.28;
  2022
• Type:
  Book chapter
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf;
  image/jpeg
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Practica et Speculativa. Studies Offered to Professor Andrzej M. Kaniowski;
• Subject:
  Enlightenment;
  God;
  Kant;
  metaphysics;
  religion
• Identifier:
  Panasiuk R., God and Religion of the Enlightened Man According to Kant, [w:] M. Gensler, A. Gralińska-Toborek, W. Kazimierska-Jerzyk, K. Kędziora, J. Miksa (red.), współpr. M. Mansfeld, Practica et Speculativa. Studies Offered to Professor Andrzej M. Kaniowski, WUŁ, Łódź 2022, https://doi.org/10.18778/8220-570-1.25;
  978-83-8220-570-1;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/42287 ;
  978-83-8220-571-8;
  10.18778/8220-570-1.26
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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• Type:
  text