2019
DOI: 10.1017/can.2019.10
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Why Does Kant Think We Must Believe in the Immortal Soul?

Abstract: Making sense of Kant’s claim that it is morally necessary for us to believe in the immortal soul is a historically fraught issue. Commentators typically reject it, or take one of two paths: they either restrict belief in the immortal soul to our subjective psychology, draining it of any substantive rational grounding; or make it out to be a rational necessity that morally interested beings must accept on pain of contradiction. Against these interpreters, I argue that on Kant’s view, belief in our immortality i… Show more

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“…Psychology generally studies human behavior, while Sufism is more than that, Sufism has a broader scope. This is based on the objects of Sufism are the soul ar-ruh, heart (Qalb), and self (an-nafs) (Frager, 2005;McLaren, 2020;Tizzard, 2020).…”
Section: The Convention Point Between Sufism and Psychologymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Psychology generally studies human behavior, while Sufism is more than that, Sufism has a broader scope. This is based on the objects of Sufism are the soul ar-ruh, heart (Qalb), and self (an-nafs) (Frager, 2005;McLaren, 2020;Tizzard, 2020).…”
Section: The Convention Point Between Sufism and Psychologymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Both, he writes, are to be rejected because both would ultimately hinder our moral efforts (5: 123). 18 Accordingly, once we attend to the sentences that follow Kant's initial characterisation of the goal, we find him clarifying his point in a way that halts the standard objection debated in the literature (Allison 1990;Guyer 2016;Hahmann 2018;Tizzard 2020;Palatnik 2022) that he illicitly substitutes the first Critique's goal of virtue with now the goal of holiness.…”
Section: What Is the Goal Of Our Moral Improvement?mentioning
confidence: 98%
“…Filsafat klasik Yunani (misalnya Sokrates dan Plato) dan Romawi (misalnya Epiktetus dan Seneca) membahas kedua isu ini secara mendalam, dengan lebih menempatkan dua isu ini dalam ranah metafisika dan etika. Filsafat modern juga mengelaborasi kedua isu ini, seperti dalam Kritik der praktischen Vernunft (KpV) karya Immanuel Kant (1788) khususnya terkait postulat imortalitas jiwa (Tizzard, 2020) maupun Martin Heidegger dengan ontologinya tentang "Ada menuju Kematian" (Sein-zum-tode) dalam adikaryanya, Sein und Zeit (1927).…”
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