기도에 대한 칸트의 비판적 해석학

Abstract

In Kant's Critical Religion ChapterⅣ I showed that Kant's genuine purpose was to confirm religious beliefs and practices. This article is an expanded view to this claim and will deepen this claim by going to a specified subject : prayer. the mono-perspective interpreting of Kant's Philosophy of religion seems to make collision on this view and it will make the same collision on the subject we are going to argue now. But It will be shown that the Copernican perspective will make it possible to assign the right place for all kind of prayers. As it was like all other religious beliefs and practices applied on the Copernican perspective prayer will also be divided to two parts : The empirical 'extras' and the transcendental 'fundamentals' The former is 'verbal prayer' and the latter is the 'Spirit of prayer'. 'The Spirit of prayer' is nothing other than just the good disposition in our minds. The Copernican perspective gives the Spirit of the prayer an priority to the verbal prayer and all kind of expessed prayers. Prayer's will have only it's meaning if it only has it's pure moral core. But not by this conclusion verbal prayer or all other kinds of prayers what is nonmoral can be eliminated. If we take the Copernican perspective we can give the nonmoral forms of prayer an genuine place and meanings in our lifes. I will suggest some conditions that will make it able to permit that kind of prayer to go in Kant's philosophy. At last, we will know that the spirit of prayer and the expressed verbal prayer all can co-exist in Kant's philosophy. That is that through kant's discussion the time-honored form's of prayer in many religion doesn't need to be eliminated but to be complemented by it.