12:45 p.m. EST
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Where philosophy & religion meet:
Immanuel Kant postulated an underlying moral structure in and of this physical universe. (It would be just inadequate, hence wrong, to define God-- as if we ever could-- as existing within such a boundary, S/He who gave birth to the Moral Structure along with everything else.)
This is why Kant was so brilliant, and so practical, therefore the most useful of philosophers. If we can believe in the existence of a moral structure, as easily as we can believe in our left big toe, then build with the help of it and build upon it, we can indeed be "co-workers with God" (Union Prayerbook), creating things more wonderful than God-without-Us ever imagined.
This is why Kant was so brilliant, and so practical, therefore the most useful of philosophers. If we can believe in the existence of a moral structure, as easily as we can believe in our left big toe, then build with the help of it and build upon it, we can indeed be "co-workers with God" (Union Prayerbook), creating things more wonderful than God-without-Us ever imagined.
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