ABSTRACT

Compared to Parts One and Two, Parts Three and Four have received very little attention in the secondary literature. Some work has been done on Part Three’s “Remarkable Antinomy” and what Kant calls the “Ethical Community” is periodically mentioned. But there is little analysis of either Part Three or Part Four as a whole and no received understanding of how their content is related to Parts One and Two in a way that brings to Religion an overarching unity. To many, the second two parts dangle more like addenda to the main philosophical work accomplished in Parts One and Two.