Religion and Morality - under consideration of Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche Buchkatalog

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Epochenübergreifende Abhandlungen, Mimarlik Fakültesi Taskisla Binasi (Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi - Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Religion and Morality is a widely discussed and analyst issue within the realm of philosophy and adjoined science areas. Since the Ancient Greek philosopher ask whether there is a connection between religion and morality and if there is one, how much do they affect each other? For my examination of this top I will concentrate on Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche, which both considered details the relation between morality and religion in their works. First I will consider shortly the history of the discourse, as well as I try to give some definition about these terms and exemplify various position, which has developed through the time. The following chapter describes Immanuel Kant's point of view of morality and religion. What is his approach, what role are duty and reasoning playing in morality and where does he see the connection between morality and religion? I will consider then Friedrich Nietzsche's 'On the Geneology of Morality ', in which he analysis the term of morality, in particular with the help of the dichotomy between the noble and the slave morality, before he links in to the idea of religion. In a final step I will give a summarizing conclusion and a very short and generalizing connection to movements and development in our world in the last few decades. Main literature has been Richard Norman's 'The Moral Philosophers. An Introduction to Ethics', as well as the Standard Encyclopedia of Philosophy and Michael L. Morgan's collection of philosophical lyrics. Here I appraise mainly Nietzsche's 'On the Geneology of Morality' and Immanuel Kant's 'Grounding for the Metaphysics of Moral'.