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2005
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Autonomie ; conscience de soi ; hétéronomie ; justification ; loi ; péché ; promesse ; raison.Sujets proches
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Jean-Marie Vaysse, « Luther et Kant », Caliban, ID : 10.3406/calib.2005.1536
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In Goethe’s view, it was thanks to Luther that the Germans had become a people ; Marx, on his part, regarded the Reformation as the revolutionary past of Germany. By giving its impetus to German thought, Luther’s ideas were seminal for Modernity. If Descartes brought out the philosophical sense of the protestant principle, Luther was the first modern thinker in so far as he established the firm ground of modern thought, namely self-consciousness on which the certainty of knowledge and action would rest. He thus paved the way for the transcendental moment by asking how God could become a phenomenon. To follow the path from Luther to Kant, one must see how the structure of self-consciousness was going to be constituted and then modified, enabling modern thought to move from salvation in the heteronomy of bonded will to the actual autonomy of the will.