Kant's Criticism Question: Between Epistemological and Religious Motives?

Abstract

This research seeks to approach the religious issue in the Kantian mind, not as it was conceived in the book Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason, but rather as it was presented implicitly in the project of criticism that Kant singled out for reason whether in the pure mind through the epistemological criticism of the mind by revealing its limits by distinguishing between its legitimate use in understanding, and its illegal use in the pure mind that opens horizons on the issue of metaphysics and religion. The ideas of pure reason constitute the theoretical starting point for every religious belief. This is also said in the ethical criticism of the practical mind, which also ends with the dilemma of religion, which must be thought about philosophically by asking about the ultimate goal of moral duties that find expression in the morally supreme being. The presentation of the religious issue through the concept of criticism in its epistemological and ethical forms requires us to recognize that the religious issue precedes Kant's mind in his book Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason. This implies that religion is not separate from the critical project in its critical trilogy. Against all reductive readings that marginalized religion by analogy with the question of criticism. And then religion becomes the starting point and the end of Kant's philosophy.