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Document Details : Title: Religieus en moreel indifferentisme bij Kant Author(s): PRAET, Peter Journal: Tijdschrift voor Filosofie Volume: 87 Issue: 4 Date: 2025 Pages: 655-690 DOI: 10.2143/TVF.87.4.3295735 Abstract : Religious indifferentism holds that doctrinal differences among religious denominations do not determine God’s judgment of believers. Its significance for the German Enlightenment has been well documented by scholars such as Jonathan Israel and Martin Mulsow. However, its relevance to Immanuel Kant’s philosophy has received little scholarly attention. This article advances two claims. First, it identifies significant parallels between Kantian thought and religious indifferentism, particularly in their analogous treatment of the relationship between natural and revealed religion. Second, it argues that Kant introduces an important corrective to religious indifferentism, one that follows directly from his rejection of moral indifferentism. Specifically, indifference (Indifferentismus) toward key theoretical and organizational questions within a potentially emancipatory movement reflects a deeper moral indifference (Gleichgültigkeit). |
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