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Leaving the Enchanted World Behind: Kant on the Order of Nature, Empirical Space and the Possibility of Miracles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2019

Pavel Reichl
Pavel Reichl*
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University of Essex
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Email: preich@essex.ac.uk
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Abstract

Despite relative neglect in the literature, Kant’s published and unpublished writings in theoretical philosophy reveal a sustained and at times ambivalent effort to come to terms with the problem of miracles. Because they entail a form of supernatural causation that undermines the law-governedness of the order of nature, miracles pose a significant problem for Kant’s metaphysics. I explore in detail Kant’s account of miracles in conjunction with the relevant aspects of his metaphysics of nature in order to establish in what sense miracles are possible, and how they fit into Kant’s architectonic more generally.

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Kantmiraclesnatureteleologysupersensiblereligion

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Kantian Review , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , March 2019 , pp. 103 - 125
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© Kantian Review 2019 

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