University of Tehran Press Philosophy of Religion 2008-7063 22 1 2025 06 02 "Much Ado About Nothing" On the Kantian Faith "Much Ado About Nothing" On the Kantian Faith 49 61 101595 10.22059/jpht.2025.379239.1006061 FA Ali Hassanzade Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Literature and Foreign Languages, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran Morteza Shajari Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Literature and Foreign Languages, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran Journal Article 2024 07 12 Under the influence of Modern philosophers prior to himself, Kant tried to examine the important philosophical problems through a crucial turn that he himself called "Copernican Revolution". Theological Problems such as God, spirit, religion, and the nature of faith were among the most important problems that underwent a transformation through this Copernican Revolution. This paper claims that one can read the whole Kantian project as an encounter with the traditional faith. In the present paper thus we try as far as possible to study different aspects of Kant's engagement with the problem of faith. This study will be possible only if we could properly answer the following question: Once he rejected the traditional faith, how could Kant speak positively of a new kind of faith? After examining Kant's different works, we were led to the conclusion that even though Kant rejected the traditional faith, he did not fall into the Postmodern indifferent faithlessness but rather spoke of a new faith that, on the one hand, has rid itself of enthusiasm, spirit-seeing, and narcissism and is, on the other hand, at odds with indifference, irresponsibility, and heteronomy. Kantian faith is an ethical, transcendental, empty faith based on human hope and courage. Under the influence of Modern philosophers prior to himself, Kant tried to examine the important philosophical problems through a crucial turn that he himself called "Copernican Revolution". Theological Problems such as God, spirit, religion, and the nature of faith were among the most important problems that underwent a transformation through this Copernican Revolution. This paper claims that one can read the whole Kantian project as an encounter with the traditional faith. In the present paper thus we try as far as possible to study different aspects of Kant's engagement with the problem of faith. This study will be possible only if we could properly answer the following question: Once he rejected the traditional faith, how could Kant speak positively of a new kind of faith? After examining Kant's different works, we were led to the conclusion that even though Kant rejected the traditional faith, he did not fall into the Postmodern indifferent faithlessness but rather spoke of a new faith that, on the one hand, has rid itself of enthusiasm, spirit-seeing, and narcissism and is, on the other hand, at odds with indifference, irresponsibility, and heteronomy. Kantian faith is an ethical, transcendental, empty faith based on human hope and courage. https://jpht.ut.ac.ir/article_101595_d637c8afdb586dddce665e45e0e8ab3b.pdf