Kierkegaard and Kant on Radical Evil and the Highest Good is a major study of Kierkegaard's relation to Kant that gives a comprehensive account of radical evil and the highest good, two controversial doctrines with important consequences for ethics and religion.

Keywords

Immanuel Kant
Søren Kierkegaard
Moral Evil
Suffering
Original Sin
Moral Virtue
Philosophical Anthropology
Happiness
Ethical Commonwealth
Kingdom of God
Theistic Arguments
Divine Grace
Hope
Autonomy
Divine Commands
autonomy
Christianity
ethics
existence of god
god
history of philosophy
immortality
Kant
Kierkegaard
morality
naturalism
philosophy
religion
theology

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“In this eleven-chapter monograph, Fremstedal offers a fresh contribution to the growing scholarship on the comparative religious thought of Søren Kierkegaard and Immanuel Kant that will also appeal to philosophers of religion.” (Erik M. Hanson, Religious Studies Review, Vol. 42 (4), December, 2016)

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University of Tromsø, Norway

Roe Fremstedal

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Roe Fremstedal is Full Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway. Fremstedal has published in journals such as Kantian Review, Religious Studies, Journal of Religious Ethics, and International Journal for Philosophy of Religion.

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Kierkegaard and Kant on Radical Evil and the Highest Good
Book Subtitle: Virtue, Happiness, and the Kingdom of God
Authors: Roe Fremstedal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137440884
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-44087-7Published: 21 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-49462-0Due: 21 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-44088-4Published: 25 November 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 326
Topics: History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Ethics, Moral Philosophy

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