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Affirming without Endorsing: Kant on Religion as Ancillary to Reason

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  • Anna Tomaszewska Jagiellonian University, Kraków https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1002-3594

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https://doi.org/10.12775/szhf.2025.013

Keywords

affirmative interpretation, Christianity, Immanuel Kant, rational faith, Enlightenment

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TOMASZEWSKA, Anna. Affirming without Endorsing: Kant on Religion as Ancillary to Reason. Studies in the History of Philosophy. Online. 11 July 2025. Vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 33-50. [Accessed 28 December 2025]. DOI 10.12775/szhf.2025.013.
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