kant believes that the concepts of a just and compassionate god and the life beyond death spring from our rational need to unite happiness with virtue. but since kant had banished happiness from any place in moral reasoning, his philosophy of religion have been deemed as not merely discontinuous with his ethics but radically opposed to it. this article tries to argue against this apparent incon...

Abstract It is not just rationalist metaphysics, but also Kant’s transcendental philosophy that teeming with a priori concepts. According to Kant, some of these concepts are “ideas,” and similar the categories, ideas in turn belong nature human reason, while others can be derived from them. therefore part claim “Transcendental Dialectic” able explain only leading rational psychology, cosmology,...

transcendental is such a significant term in kant's thoughts that he calls his philosophy transcendental idealism. however, this term isn't used with the same meaning in his philosophy. since the term is associated with the same meaning in the works about kant, it seems necessary to clarify its meaning in order to prevent any misunderstanding. the subject of this paper is to clarify t...

place this naturalism in what I hope to be an illuminating historical context, to trace the status of the a priori through its various twists and turns, and eventually to draw some tentative conclusions about the naturalistic status of the a priori. To do this, I first return to Kant. While it's surely no surprise that an examination of the a priori should start from Kant, perhaps his relevance...