How is Rational Faith Possible?——On Kant's Response to the Pantheism Controversy
By responding to the"pantheism controversy,"Kant criticizes Jacobi and Wizenmann's fantasy claims on faith and Mendelssohn's dogmatic faith in common sense to explain further how reason can serve as the authority for faith.Finite rational beings have no knowledge of God but cannot deny the reality of God just based on their limitations.The idea of a moral God postulated by practical reason is universally valid,even though it is posited to satisfy the subjective practical intentions of practical reason.Out of the manifestation of human holiness and the avoidance of absurdum practicum,the postulate of God as the highest good requires practical reason.