By Schubert Ogden
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Kant's sharp criticism of Judaism would be to the point only if one
were one were to ignore completely (as he himself does) the long line of Jewish self
-criticism beginning with the eighth century prophets and including, in a wayway,
Jesus Jesus. In fact, the main point of Kant's criticism is really simply the point
already point already repeatedly made by these Jewish prophets. Ironically, then, his basic
religious basic religious outlook is itself eminently Jewish, or, if you will, Pharisaic, as
distinct from Christian, in Marxsen's sense of this distinctiondistinction.
Kant Kant's sharp criticism of Judaism would be to the point only if one were to ignore completely (as he himself does) the long line of Jewish self-criticism beginning with the eighth century prophets and including, in a way, Jesus. In fact, the main point of Kant's criticism is really simply the point already repeatedly made by these Jewish prophets. Ironically, then, his basic religious outlook is itself eminently Jewish, or, if you will, Pharisaic, as distinct from Christian, in Marxsen's sense of this distinction.
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