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...signs among mankind of conscience, of some moral law and of each person's inability to keep it satisfactorily, all of which can not be explained as mere conditioning or self-interest. The source of that spark of conscience, theists contend, is God. The most celebrated exponent, Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), wrote that each person's quest for the "highest good" implies the existence of a moral being as the necessary condition for this idea, who is himself the source of all morality...
...Updating Kant, Dartmouth Scholar Ronald Green argues in Religious Reason (Oxford; $12) that though skeptics may think primitive instincts or emotions are the basis for religion, faith actually stems from the sophisticated reasoning process that distinguishes humans from animals. To Green, man must seek an independent, coherent source for his morality. Although Kant ended with a personal God, Green will only go so far as to postulate "some kind of supreme moral causal agency," whether a personal deity or Hinduism's impersonal karma...
...aware and responsive to them as well, both in perspective and past record. It is evident that Arnold Harberger is unfit for the position on either of these grounds. Richard Reed Jerome Hasenpflug Michael Rhum Bruno Pajaczkowski Emily McIntire Mariza Peirano Rafique H. Keshavjee James P. Ito-Adler Roberto Kant DeLima George Bisharat Hy Luon Elizabeth Eames Martin Etter Nancy Nicolson
...Immanuel Kant...
Jimmy Connors does not labor under Kant's burden. Sometimes when the tennis gets intense, Connors grabs his crotch and shakes it for the crowd. He pelts the linesmen and judges with rotten language. He shoots his finger. The umpire usually responds with the flustered and ineffectual dismay of a curate who has discovered the servants copulating in his study...