God's awful majesty before our eyes: Kant's moral justification for divine hiddenness
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Paytas, Tyler. (2017). God's awful majesty before our eyes: Kant's moral justification for divine hiddenness. Kantian Review. 22(1), pp. 133 - 157. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1369415416000406
Authors | Paytas, Tyler |
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Abstract | The problem of ‘divine hiddenness’ arises from the lack of an explanation for why an all-loving God would choose not to make his existence evident. I argue that Kant provides a compelling solution to this problem in an often overlooked passage located near the end of the second Critique. Kant’s suggestion is that God’s revealing himself would preclude the development of virtue because we would lose the experience of conflict between self-interest and the moral law. I provide a reconstruction and defence of Kant’s argument, and I explain why it is consistent with his overall position in the second Critique. |
Keywords | God; divine hiddenness; virtue; freedom; gallows |
Year | 2017 |
Journal | Kantian Review |
Journal citation | 22 (1), pp. 133 - 157 |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
ISSN | 1369-4154 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1017/S1369415416000406 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-85011022872 |
Page range | 133 - 157 |
Research Group | Dianoia Institute of Philosophy |
Publisher's version | File Access Level Controlled |
Place of publication | United Kingdom |
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