Abstract for the Kant in Asia International Conference

at Hong Kong Baptist University

20-23 May 2009

Mohammad Raayat Jahromi, “Moral Theology or Theological Morality?”

Since Kant is a son of his time, his thought is originally rooted in the Enlightenment. The distinction between theoretical and practical reason, formal and material conscientiousness, authentic and doctrinal theodicy, sincerity and falsehood, and finally, historical and moral faith religion, are implications of the court held by Kant for metaphysics. Meanwhile, Kantian distinction between deism and theism in one hand, and inclination toward Job and Christ as the symbols of moral faith of religion in the other hand, can be explained by the German Protestantism of the age of Fredrick the Great and his successor. Kant sees moral faith of religion as a contributing cultural factor that brings about the establishment of the universal religion of reason and, consequently, the determination of human personhood as member of the ethical commonwealth. Through moral theology, human beings attempt to form their own personhood in the context of the ethical commonwealth.

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