For a long time Catholic doctrine has held that religion is the basis of morality,
"A nossa vida moral tem a sua fonte na fé em Deus (...)" (Cat: 2087),
that God is the author of moral law,
"A lei moral é obra da Sabedoria divina. (...)" (Cat: 1950)
and that it is up to the Church to teach the moral law:
"(...) À Igreja compete anunciar sempre e em toda a parte os princípios morais (...) O Magistério dos pastores da Igreja, em matéria moral, exerce-se ordinariamente na catequese e na pregação (...)" (Cat: 2032-3).
For the Lutheran mouvement of Kant's native Germany to succeed it was required in the first place that the idea of religion being the source of morality be destroyed, thus leaving the Church preaching morality in a vacuum. This is what Kant did (see here).
Whereas in the Catholic doctrine it is religion that leads to morality, in the Kantian doctrine morality is independent of religion. If anything, it is morality that leads to religion as a convenient assumption or postulate, not the other way around. The role of the Catholic Church as a teacher of morality is thereby emptied.
Kant was a devout pietist, a mouvement of Lutheranism in seventeenth and eighteenth century Germany. Was he looking for truth in his writings, or was he an ideologue trying to destroy the enemy - the Catholic Church? I believe he was an ideologue, actually the father of all modern ideologues.
"A nossa vida moral tem a sua fonte na fé em Deus (...)" (Cat: 2087),
that God is the author of moral law,
"A lei moral é obra da Sabedoria divina. (...)" (Cat: 1950)
and that it is up to the Church to teach the moral law:
"(...) À Igreja compete anunciar sempre e em toda a parte os princípios morais (...) O Magistério dos pastores da Igreja, em matéria moral, exerce-se ordinariamente na catequese e na pregação (...)" (Cat: 2032-3).
For the Lutheran mouvement of Kant's native Germany to succeed it was required in the first place that the idea of religion being the source of morality be destroyed, thus leaving the Church preaching morality in a vacuum. This is what Kant did (see here).
Whereas in the Catholic doctrine it is religion that leads to morality, in the Kantian doctrine morality is independent of religion. If anything, it is morality that leads to religion as a convenient assumption or postulate, not the other way around. The role of the Catholic Church as a teacher of morality is thereby emptied.
Kant was a devout pietist, a mouvement of Lutheranism in seventeenth and eighteenth century Germany. Was he looking for truth in his writings, or was he an ideologue trying to destroy the enemy - the Catholic Church? I believe he was an ideologue, actually the father of all modern ideologues.
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