tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503927.post111248807938193317..comments2024-03-16T17:18:50.797+08:00Comments on The Agora: Was Kant really an enemy of Christianity?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503927.post-13100291004382212082007-03-08T01:35:00.000+08:002007-03-08T01:35:00.000+08:00I am curious as to the description of RM Hare as a...I am curious as to the description of RM Hare as an atheist. This is surprising, since he remained engaged in the church throughout his life and his blik discussion distinctly left a philosophical space for Christian beliefAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503927.post-1112629503660238172005-04-04T23:45:00.000+08:002005-04-04T23:45:00.000+08:00My sister used to tell me that Kant's "categorical...My sister used to tell me that Kant's "categorical imperative" is the only Christian option amongst a host of relativist/pragmatic options... this is a course in ethics in her MBA, i think <BR/><BR/>Hehe.. so I'm grateful... <BR/><BR/>As a Christian hedonist, I like wat w CS Lewis said "it is a Christian duty, u know, to be as happy as u can be" hahah!Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12945010948044311994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503927.post-1112558073215072402005-04-04T03:54:00.000+08:002005-04-04T03:54:00.000+08:00Yes, Kant was certainly clumsy in trying to descri...Yes, Kant was certainly clumsy in trying to describe the noumenal. Your instincts are right on. The way he attempted to 'protect' the realm of the divine also made God unknowable. If he is alive today, and witnessed the postmodern critique of logical positivism in the natural sciences, he might not be so extreme. The philosophical collapse of both strict foundational and postmodernity itself has spawned a crisis of ontology. The notion of reality itself is now called to question. <BR/>As for his moral language, remember that his primary audience is not the church. He still believed in the existence of an Archimedean Point, an objective locus from which one may judge subjectivity. yet he knows deep in his heart to moral impulse in the human nature. He marveled at his own sense of right and wrong and could not imagine that it was endemic to being human.Ron Choonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09686599929666485384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503927.post-1112491460197854682005-04-03T09:24:00.000+08:002005-04-03T09:24:00.000+08:00Hi Ron, Glad to see your debut here with an intere...Hi Ron, Glad to see your debut here with an interesting discussion! <BR/><BR/>It has seemed to me that Kant was a good Christian, and I luv to quote that phrase u cited abt the moral law within and the heavenly stars above. <BR/><BR/>The only two beefs I have with him so far is: <BR/><BR/>1. Kant's 'rescue' of noumenal realm (which inc God, self) from empirical inquiry <BR/><BR/>2. For an action to be morally good, the doer should be "disinterested."Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12945010948044311994noreply@blogger.com