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This is a study of Kant's treatment of the sacred in Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason. Throughout his attempt to articulate a rational religion Kant emphasizes the need to keep a “respectful distance” from the sacred. For Kant the sacred should not be, and indeed cannot be, eliminated from our thinking about ethics or politics. But while the sacred must be present, it is a bare presence. Kant wants us to do little other than acknowledge the sacred: we should not attempt to harness it, rely upon it, or master it. The mere attempt would threaten our freedom. Kant's stance can be seen as a concern about what Martin Heidegger calls “technique” - an as yet unnamed and still incipient phenomenon in Kant’s own time. Technique is a way that being appears to us in modernity. Under the sway of technique beings are disclosed as resources that are at our disposal for unspecified ends. This study argues that although Kant attempts to avoid the logic of technique, technique is - ultimately - still apparent in his treatment of the sacred. Kant’s work, then, illuminates the predicament of technique: even the will to evade technique is often marked by technique. This study is preparatory for a critique of attempts within political theory to harness the sacred in order to enhance political or ethical community. Insofar as we think technique is a problem, such efforts to theorize the political sacred may be problematic. |
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| Satkunanandan, Shalini. "Saving the Sacred from Technique" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2011-03-14 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p39734_index.html> |
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| Satkunanandan, S. P. , 2005-09-01 "Saving the Sacred from Technique" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC Online <PDF>. 2011-03-14 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p39734_index.html |
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Abstract: This is a study of Kant's treatment of the sacred in Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason. Throughout his attempt to articulate a rational religion Kant emphasizes the need to keep a “respectful distance” from the sacred. For Kant the sacred should not be, and indeed cannot be, eliminated from our thinking about ethics or politics. But while the sacred must be present, it is a bare presence. Kant wants us to do little other than acknowledge the sacred: we should not attempt to harness it, rely upon it, or master it. The mere attempt would threaten our freedom. Kant's stance can be seen as a concern about what Martin Heidegger calls “technique” - an as yet unnamed and still incipient phenomenon in Kant’s own time. Technique is a way that being appears to us in modernity. Under the sway of technique beings are disclosed as resources that are at our disposal for unspecified ends. This study argues that although Kant attempts to avoid the logic of technique, technique is - ultimately - still apparent in his treatment of the sacred. Kant’s work, then, illuminates the predicament of technique: even the will to evade technique is often marked by technique. This study is preparatory for a critique of attempts within political theory to harness the sacred in order to enhance political or ethical community. Insofar as we think technique is a problem, such efforts to theorize the political sacred may be problematic. |
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| Saving the Sacred from Technique A reading of Kant’s Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason For Presentation at the American Political Science Association 2005 Annual Meeting Panel on “Theorizing the Political Sacred” September 1–4 2005 Shalini P. Satkunanandan Doctoral Candidate Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program Boalt School of Law University of California Berkeley shalini3@berkeley.edu Saving the Sacred from Technique A Reading of Kant’s Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason In Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason |
| – the very mark of technique 58 John Rawls Political Liberalism (New York: Columbia University Press 1993) pp. 147-8. 59 See Heidegger “The revealing that rules throughout modern technique has the character of a setting-upon in the sense of a challenging forth. That challenging happens in that the energy concealed in nature is unlocked what is unlocked in transformed what is transformed is stored up what is stored up is in turn distributed and what is distributed is switched |
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