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Summary
Title: Praxis and Hope: Kant’s Moral Theology and its Problems - Kant, Fichte and the young Hegel on Moral Theoloy and a Reflection on transcendental Method
Author: Lai, Shen-chon
Publication: Taipei 1997
This Book tackles the question of “Kant's moral theology and its problems in Fichte's and the young Hegel's criticism”. Contemporary studies of classical German Philosophy in German are used to an interpretation of the structure of Kant’s moral theology and its foundation in the moral teleology.
An analysis of the problems in Fichte’s and the young Hegel’s criticism of Kant are examined. An attempt is made to solve the dilemma of the autonomy of moral will and the existence of God in Kant’s philosophy. While G.B.Sala says that Kant’s moral theology lacks the teleological and ontological dimension, Picht emphasizes this dimension in Kant’s moral theology. The teleological foundation of Kant’s moral theology is reconstructed in this dissertation. The two meanings of autonomy and the two dimension of the highest good are examined to solve the contradictory interpretations of Sala and Picht.
Fichte’s early philosophy of religion developes the radical transcendentalism of Kant’s moral theology. Fichte’s latter philosophy of religion criticizes this transcendentalism and developes a philosophy of religion of “to love God is to love Absolute”. This dissertation outlines this development of Fichte's philosophy of religion and its relation to his “Wissenschaftslehre”.
In his Frankfurt and Jena period young Hegel adds a dialectical dimension to moral theology and criticizes Kant’s and Fichte’s transcendentalism. This debate is the third of the three moments of the the development and transformation of moral theology in German Idealism. These three moments in the Odyssey of the moral theology and its relationship to the problem of Praxis in Kant’s, Fichte’s und Hegel’s Philosophy are examined.
Content
Introduction
Part One Praxis and Hope: Moral Autonomy and the Existence of God in Kant’s
Philosophy
Appendix From duty to hope: the interpretation and criticism of Kant’s
ethics by Ricoeur in his phenomenologic Hermeneutic
Part Two The development and criticsism of Kants moral theology by Fichte and
the young Hegel
Chapter 1 “Wissenschaftslehre” and faith: Fichte’s Philosophy of Religion on
the basis of “Wissenschaftslehre”. His development and his criti-
cism of Kants moral theology
Chapter 2 Dialectics and historicity: The young Hegel and the dialectic of
religious truth and its historicity as well as his criticism of Kants
moral theology
A Reflection on transcendental Method
Conclusion