Difference in Philosophy of Religion

Philosophy of Philosophy of Religion

Berkeley's Philosophy of Religion

Like most of the great early modern philosophers, George Berkeley was not a university professor. He pursued, instead, a career in the clergy of the Anglican Church of Ireland. Berkeley was ordained in 1710, the same year he published his Treatise on the Principles of Human Knowledge (Berman 1994, 17). His first clerical post was as chaplain to Lord Peterborough from 1713-1714 (80). From here, ...

Kant’s Philosophy of Religion and the Challenges of Moral Commitment

Kant believes that the concepts of a just and compassionate God and the life beyond death spring from our rational need to unite happiness with virtue. But since Kant had banished happiness from any place in moral reasoning, his philosophy of religion have been deemed as not merely discontinuous with his ethics but radically opposed to it. This article tries to argue against this apparent incon...

Toward Decolonizing African Philosophy and Religion

Logos and Ethos: The Civil Religion in the Political Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

This article explores the concept of civil religion from the perspective of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. It starts with a discussion of the essence of sovereignty as the implementation of general will, which, the author explains, is manifested in the obedience of the laws. The article then discusses the way in which, in Rousseau’s view, institutional mechanisms work and thereupon explores how he envi...