What happened after Kant in Theology?
In theology, as in philosophy, people found they could not ignore Kant, but they also discovered that there were ways to get around, under, over, or even through, Kant s critical philosophy. Here are some of the more famous of them. Intensifying (Out-Kanting!) Kant: This is the approach that tries to do what Kant did only more thoroughly and consistently. This involves making reference to the contradiction inherent in the self-referentiality of Kant s project: reason cannot identify its own limits without taking a transcendent position. Thus, it is a matter of intensifying Kant s achievement in the sense of increasing its consistency. But the results of this intensification can in some cases crucially undo the system. • The absolute idealists thought they did this when they abandoned noumena as explanatorily superfluous (Hegel). • The transcendental thomists also did it when they argued that the noumena are in fact experienced, for the phenomena are both caused by, and participate in,
