Religion and morality in Kant and Kierkegaard

• Autor(a) principal: Abe, Paulo
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Trilhas Filosóficas (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.apps.uern.br/index.php/RTF/article/view/3399
• topic: Morality; Ethics; Religion; Belief; Kierkegaard; Kant; Moral; Ética; Religião; Crença; Kierkegaard. Psicologia. Inconsciente. Freud.; Kant

On this paper, we will seek to analyze how the ethical (also as morality) in connection to religion changes between Kant and later with Kierkegaard, giving more attention to the latter. We will first go on how Kant defines morality and, later, on how he states that religion supports and is in fact morality, criticizing along the way how he elaborates his argument, and what evidence he brings forth to support his ideas. On the second part, we tackle Kierkegaard with his contrasting concept of religiousness in Abraham and how he changes the concept of the religious and the ethical with that but bringing to the surface throughout the analyzes some weaknesses in his argumentation, having in mind a possible continuity between the first and second Kierkegaard’s literature.