Abstract

The “Cambridge pragmatists”, Charles S. Peirce, William James and Josiah Royce, are at least in two respects significantly indebted to Kant: first, as von Kempski, Apel and Murphey have shown, with regard to the epistemological issues investigated in pragmatism; secondly, with regard to the various pragmatic approaches to religion, something which has been long overlooked. These approaches are best understood as innovative re-readings of Kant’s postulates of freedom, immortality, and God. Since Hilary Putnam pointed out — in his 1992 book Renewing Philosophy — that James’s essay, “The Will to Believe”, in spite of having received a great deal of hostile criticism, is in “its logic, in fact, precise and impeccable”, James’s thoughts are considered by many contemporary philosophers (by Charles Taylor, e.g., and by Hans Joas) as particularly inspiring. James’s approach is based on the modern experience of secularism and interprets Kant’s “postulate” as the “option” to believe. A deepening of the debate on the relevance of Kant’s analysis of the horizon of religious hope with regard to human praxis for a pragmatism-inspired philosophy of religion can be expected from a detailed discussion of the thoughts of Peirce and Royce, of thoughts, which, in complex ways, relate to, as well as criticise, James’s individuum-focused interpretation of religious faith.

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  • William James and Josiah Royce, are at least in two respects significantly indebted to Kant: first, as von Kempski, Apel and Murphey have shown, with regard to the epistemological issues investigated in pragmatism; secondly, with regard to the various pragmatic approaches to religion, something which has been long overlooked

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William James and Josiah Royce, are at least in two respects significantly indebted to Kant: first, as von Kempski, Apel and Murphey have shown, with regard to the epistemological issues investigated in pragmatism; secondly, with regard to the various pragmatic approaches to religion, something which has been long overlooked. В первой части статьи сначала освещаются некоторые из исследований XX в., темой которых было влияние Канта на основателя прагматизма — Чарльза Сандерса Пирса. Сфокусированными на отношении Пирса к Канту, вторая часть статьи посвящена прямым и непрямым отсылкам к Канту в философии Уильяма Джеймса, при этом в разборе его работы «Воля к вере» эксплицитно поднимается другая тема отношения к Канту, едва затронутая в первой части статьи, — религиозные штудии «кембриджского прагматизма», на которые Кант оказал значительное влияние. Hier werden die post-kantischen, pragmatistischen Denkbewegungen vorgestellt, die sich in den Schriften von Peirce, James und Royce finden, in die (bei Peirce und Royce) neben Kant-nahen Erwägungen auch Hegelsche Motive miteingehen

О значении философии Канта для прагматизма
Прямые и косвенные отсылки к Канту в текстах Уильяма Джеймса
Direkte und indirekte Kantbezüge im Denken von William James
Kants Postulatenlehre und der religionsphilosophische Diskurs der
Das Postulat “Gott”
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