Bóg i religia człowieka oświeconego według Kanta
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Having revealed an illusion of man’s cognitive efforts, Kant
sealed the progress of enlightenment inscribed into a historical process,
with a deep conviction that an ancient Greek prescription to „know
thyself” was finally fulfilled. A man became aware of being equipped
with a mind, and accordingly, with freedom as well as the ability to act
morally, still of remaining a finite natural being with cognitive skills
limited. This critical self-knowledge of an enlightened man relieved him
of his nonage to open his eyes for a new vision of both the world and a
man himself regarded as a self-conscious subject and active creator of
his fate.
The character and ontological status of religious beliefs the
enlightened man confesses are in fact defined by the famous Kantian
formula: as if (als ob.) Driven by moral reasons, they are distinguished
with a rationality for which a fundamental value is the Highest Good,
purely rationalistic construction, a kind of god thought to be an
essential being and a ration for existence of the phenomenal world
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