Kant Vs Luther

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Being free is possible by factors surrounding ones’ intentions. There are those that believe it possible to be free by perspective, voice, or thinking. Approaching the discussion of what freedom is best is in the hands of the pursuer. Immanuel Kant freedom of self differs from Martin Luther’s freedom for faith, but both come together as a way of improvement for mankind.
Law is what rules the lands and is a guideline in which the people follow for that is how society works and continues to prosper. Being able to, “test any particular measure that can be agreed upon as a law for people to impose upon themselves” (Kant, 55). This thinking of possible self imposed law is a way for the people at that moment in time can be able to dictate what they …show more content…

“We simply explain justification to be an acceptance, by which God receives us into his favour…” (Luther, 109). This implication of acceptance from God has the merits of the faith and grace devoted onto him by ones’ will for freedom differs dramatically of those for justification in the physical world. While both Kant and Luther have had similar concepts the one of justification is not as equal, the justified from self can only come from the self. Being justified from God is another from of an out being that does not bring out potential self freedom besides spiritual. Not to do with self freedom of growth and development of the outside worlds and thinking. This comes from a deeper place of religious aspects and …show more content…

“For enlightenment of this kind, all that is needed if freedom” (Kant, 53) this freedom is of Kant to be wise for own understanding. In order to be free for the self, first one must be able to explore oneself inner motives in life and what they expect in the end. To truly be free there must not be a single factor influencing a decision to make it ones own true decision that is best. Kant sees the enlightenment to start once arguing and questioning anything currently going on, this method is the free as a mind can be, to explore. In Luther “faith alone, whose nature is it to open the ears and shut the eyes…” (Luther, 111). This acceptance of faith is all belief of everything you can hear for what is said is more valuable to one self if you agree to what is being said, than merely seeing where people are aliening themselves. This is the faiths own form of enlightenment for being able to question and find what makes sense in the own inner self by word of mouth and understanding. All are possible by the free expression of publicity and access of

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