Many who are committed to reason and science have turned against religion altogether and treat it with fear and contempt.

Kant thinks we can show that there is no contradiction in supposing we are free.

It would be nice, wouldn't it? if we could get comfortable about the problem of freedom. Kant thinks that we can't.

What is central to morality is rational self-constraint (acting from duty), in cease where there is no other incentive to do your duty except that the moral law commands it.

I don't think Kant's approach to religion is any longer viable in its original form. But that does not mean it is simply wrong or that we cannot learn from it.

The picture of Kant as the 'theological Robespierre' or the "world-crusher" was first suggested by someone with whom Kant stood in a relation of philosophical disagreement but also great mutual respect: namely, Moses Mendelssohn.

Not only our moral life, but even our use of theoretical reason - on which we rely in rationally inquiring into nature - presupposes that we are free.