Immanuel Kant - Die Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der bloßen Vernunft (La Religion dans les limites de la simple - 1794

Immanuel Kant: The Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason (La Religion dans les limites de la simple raison)

XXVI, [2], 314 pp, 20 12 cm, hardcover
Königsberg, Friedrich Nicolosius 1794

Annotation on the first blank page, library stamp and annotation on the title page, library label on the front.

Beautiful typography

Foxing and stains, nevertheless a fine copy of this rare and famous work.

Second enlarged edition.

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The Religion within the Bounds of the Reason Alone is a philosophical treatise on religion by Emmanuel Kant, published between 1793 and 1794. Kant develops a philosophical doctrine of religion that proposes a religion founded on reason, a variant of natural religion that one may call the “religion of reason.” He presupposes that the idea of freedom, the idea of the immortality of the soul, and the idea of God are unprovable yet indispensable postulates of reason, as he states in the Critique of Practical Reason. He uses the doctrine transmitted by Christianity as a starting point to establish other links between morality and religion: the doctrine of original sin addresses the problem of the human predisposition to good, subject to a propensity to evil; the figure of Christ symbolizes the morally perfect human being; and the idea of the Church is understood as an “ethical community.” This treatise on religion is considered one of Kant’s most famous works. The Religion within the Bounds of the Reason Alone is a philosophical treatise on the religion of Emmanuel Kant, published between 1793 and 1794. Kant develops a philosophical doctrine of religion that proposes a religion founded on reason, a variant of natural religion that may be termed the “religion of reason.” He presupposes that the idea of freedom, the idea of the immortality of the soul, and the idea of God are unprovable yet indispensable postulates of reason, as he affirms in the Critique of Practical Reason. He uses the doctrine transmitted by Christianity as a starting point to establish further links between morality and religion: the doctrine of original sin addresses the problem of the human predisposition to good, subject to a propensity to evil; the figure of Christ symbolizes the morally perfect human being; and the idea of the Church is understood as an “ethical community.” This treatise on religion is considered one of Kant’s most famous works.