Tanrıyı Oynamak: Kant Etiğinin Kritiği

Abstract

Due to his theory of deontological ethic, Kant is regarded, in the history of philosophy, as one of the cornerstones of ethics, and it is said, as a rule, that he has an original theory of ethics in that he posited the idea of free and autonomous individual. However, when dug deeper into Kant-s ethics, and also if it is exactly compared with theological ethic, it is clearly seen that all he has accomplished was to make a copy of the theological ethic and to use such secular terms as reason, conscience, good will, moral law, categorical imperative, universalizability, summum bonum, ethico-civil state/universal religion of mere reason as a substitute for such key terms of religious ethics as God, prophet, for God-s sake, the Golden Rule, Divine command, Heaven, Kingdom of God without modifying the wording, content and logic of theological ethics. So, the notion of a subject or reason which pretends to be God has no sign of originality