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IS CONTEMPORARY MORAL THEORY FOUNDED ON A MISUNDERSTANDING?*
Author(s) -
Pojman Louis P.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of social philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.353
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1467-9833
pISSN - 0047-2786
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9833.1991.tb00037.x
Subject(s) - perfection , philosophy , judgement , metaphysics , epistemology , gospel , ideal (ethics) , christianity , theology
[Christianity] has enriched philosophy with far more definite and purer concepts than it had been able to furnish before; but which, once they are there, are freely assented to by Reason and are assumed as concepts to which it could well have come of itself and which it could and should have introduced…. Even the Holy One of the Gospel must first be compared with our ideal of moral perfection, before we can recognize him as such [Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgement , tr. Bernard; p. 410n and Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals , tr. Lewis White Beck; p. 30].