ABSTRACT
Kant had high hopes for his philosophy of the human being. He claimed that his Critiques, especially the Critique of Pure Reason, “completely specified [reason's] questions according to principles, and, after discovering the point where reason has misunderstood itself, … resolved them to reason's complete satisfaction” (Axii). He wrote of his course in anthropology that he would make this “very pleasant empirical study” into “a proper academic discipline” that could, “distinct from all other learning, … be called knowledge of the world” (10: 146). Kant's account of God, immortality, and human evil would, he hoped, put religion “within the boundaries of reason alone.”
