Immanuel Kant: Basing Morality

Immanuel Kant explains the difference between determining moral theology and theological morality. He says that moral theology is the concept of a person having their own idea of what moral is, which isn’t necessarily connected with what God thinks is moral. He says that doing something good because your religion told you to or you grew up thinking this is the best thing. Kant says this is bad because are you doing this because you think this is good or because you grew up thinking this was the right thing. Your religion has more power over you than you knew. For example, one might believe that murdering people in order to get closer to God is purely moral, but God does not believe this is in any way moral or right. On the other hand, Kant says theological morality is what you consider good and bad emerge from the belief in …show more content…
Jewish people alone may not have thought of this, but because they were commanded to take this upon themselves they become better and more well rounded people. One consequence would be that basing morality and theology is not something to any ones advantage. In an ideal world all humans should have the same moral codes but since everyone comes from different religions there are many different moral codes that people follow. Another consequence of basing morality on theology is that morality will change over time and through the decades while theology will not. This could be seen through an example about gay rights. Around 100 years ago it was unthinkable and looked down upon to be gay, but nowadays you are looked down upon if you are anti gay. Here, the moral basis of humans has evolved but the theology behind it has not and this could potentially cause people to have differences in opinions. Kant believes that humans are finite but the divine is infinite and therefore it is impossible to understand or be on the same level as