Abstract

CHARPENEL, Eduardo. The summum bonum in Kant’s Religionsschrift. Sig. Fil [online]. 2020, vol.22, n.43, pp.58-87.  Epub Apr 25, 2022. ISSN 1665-1324.

In this article, my aim is to show that the theory of the highest good in the Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason reflects great coherence and unity with what Kant says on the same topic in other works. In contrast with commentators who endorse a secular humanist reading of this notion in Kant’s late works, I defend the thesis that the highest good must be interpreted -due to textual and systematic reasons- as a notion which, on the one hand, is irreductible to mere political o moral enterprises, and, on the other, presupposes God as a transcendent being who gives his aid to human beings in order for them to overcome moral and physical evils and attain happiness in proportion to virtue.

Keywords : philosophy of religion; morality; highest good; ethical community; secularism.

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