1st Edition
Kant’s Highest Good From Practical Reason to Rational Faith
Introduction
1. What is the Highest Good?
2. The Highest Good “in the World”
3. The Postulate of Immortality
4. The Postulate of God
5. The Function of the Highest Good (Part One)
6. The Function of the Highest Good (Part Two)
7. Belief, Cognition, and Apophatic Analogy
8. The Moral Argument
9. The Highest Good as Duty
10. Concluding Précis
Appendix: Central Texts and Passages
Biography
Lawrence Robin Pasternack was Professor of Philosophy and Director of Religious Studies at Oklahoma State University, as well as a leading scholar of Kant’s philosophy of religion. His numerous publications have appeared in Kantian Review, Kant-Studien, the Journal of the History of Philosophy, and Faith and Philosophy, among many others. Through his extensive editorial work, especially on the series Kant’s Sources in Translation (with Pablo Muchnik), he enriched scholarship beyond measure. His first book with Routledge, Kant’s Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason: An Interpretation and Defense was published in 2014. A full list of Dr. Pasternack’s publications can be found at the end of this volume.
Courtney D. Fugate is Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University, Tallahassee, and a specialist in classical German philosophy, including Kant, and the history and philosophy of science.
Jennifer Elisabeth Fugate is a freelance editor and translator.
