Open AccessKant,1 Scientific Pietism, and Scientific Naturalism
Author(s) -
Robert Hanna
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
revista de filosofia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 1980-5934
pISSN - 0104-4443
DOI - 10.7213/aurora.28.044.ds10
Subject(s) - naturalism , philosophy , doctrine , metaphysics , epistemology , pietism , natural (archaeology) , piety , sensibility , humanity , natural law , german , religious studies , theology , law , political science , linguistics , archaeology , history
The doctrine of Kantian natural piety says that rational human animals are essentially at home in physical nature. In this essay, I apply the doctrine of Kantian natural piety directly to the natural sciences, and especially physics, by showing how they have a cognitive, epistemic, metaphysical, practical/moral, aesthetic/artistic, religious, and sociocultural/political grounding in Kantian sensibility, both pure and empirical. This is what I call Kantian scientific pietism, and it is to be directly and radically opposed to scientific naturalism