Michael J. Mahony: "Kant’s doctrines are destructively opposed to Catholicism.¹ His teaching has been condemned by Popes Leo XIII and Pius X"
CATHOLICISM VERSUS KANT
Michael J. Mahony (1933)
Kant’s doctrines are destructively opposed to Catholicism.¹ His teaching has been condemned by Popes Leo XIII and Pius X. His great work, “The Critique of Pure Reason” was placed on the Index, 11th June, 1827. Inconsistent with Catholic teaching are (1) Kant’s Metaphysical Agnosticism, which declares his ignorance of all things as they really are; (2) his Moral Dogmatism which declares the supremacy of will over reason, thereby making blind will without the guidance of reason the rule of action; (3) his giving to religious dogma merely a symbolic signification; (4) diametrically opposed to scholastic teaching and the common sense of mankind is Kant’s theory of knowledge which makes mind and thought the measure of reality rather than making reality the measure of mind and thought. Kant maintains that things are so because we must think them so, not that we must think them so because they are really so independently of our thinking them. The reversal of the order of thought and reality, Kant calls his “Copernican Revolution” in his theory of knowledge. [https://medium.com/@christopherrichardwadedettling/catholicism-versus-kant-e1bcfec8d9d4]
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