The ‘Two Experiments’ of Kant’sReligion: Dismantling the Conundrum

Abstract

Abstract The past decade has seen a sizeable increase in scholarship on Kant’sReligion. Yet, unlike the centuries of debate that inform our study of his other major works, scholarship on theReligionis still just in its infancy. As such, it is in a particularly vulnerable state where errors made now could hinder scholarship for decades to come. It is the purpose of this article to mitigate one such danger, a danger issuing from the widely assumed view that theReligionis shaped by ‘two experiments’. I will begin with a survey of the four current interpretations of the experiments, and then propose one further interpretation, one that hopefully will help dismantle this alleged ‘conundrum’ and thereby help scholarship on theReligionmove beyond this early misstep.

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