Abstract:While Reinhold was no doubt interested in harnessing Kantian practical reason as a rational ground for our fundamental religious convictions, it remains unclear as to whether he reserves any role for theoretical or speculative reason in moral faith, and if so, what. This paper argues that he continues to assign an important role to speculative reason in the establishment and dissemination of a "religion of reason" in his efforts across three major texts of the Jena period (namely, the 1786-1787 Letters on the … Show more
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