Roe Fremstedal 
Kierkegaard and Kant on Radical Evil and the Highest Good 
Virtue, Happiness, and the Kingdom of God

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.

Tabella dei contenuti

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Methodological Considerations: Contextual and Analytic Approaches to the History of Philosophy 2. Original Sin and Radical Evil: Moral Freedom and Anxiety 3. Anthropology and Morality: Facticity and Moral Character 4. History and Morality: The Moral Structure of the World 5. The Highest Good: Virtue, Happiness, and the Kingdom of God 6. The Moral Argument for the Existence of God and Immortality: Natural Theology and Divine Revelation 7. Religious Faith and Divine Grace: Human and Divine Agency 8. Divine Revelation and Christianity: Rationalism and Supernaturalism 9. Religious Hope: Moral Agency and the Expectancy of the Good 10. Religion and Metaethics: Divine Commands and Autonomy as the Source of Moral Obligations 11. Closing Discussion: Overlap and Influence Notes Bibliography Index

Circa l’autore

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.