Religious Anthroplogy

Religious Anthroplogy

A Critical Reading of Human Dignity in Kant's Metaphysics of Ethics from the Intra-Paradigmatic Perspective of the West and Islamic Epistemology

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
Hamide Ahmadian 1
Ahamd Moradkhani 2
Ali Asghar Tajari 3
1 Department of Quranic and Hadith Sciences, Qom Branch Islamic Azad University.Qom. Iran
2 Department of Fiqh and Fundamentals of Islamic Law. Qom Branch. Islamic Azad university. Qom. Iran
3 Department of Quranic and Hadith Sciences. Qom Branch. Islamic Azad University. Qom. Iran
10.22034/ra.2025.2062702.3074
Abstract
The fundamental role of the issue of dignity in many matters related to humans, including, free will, freedom, and human rights, has caused this issue to be the focus of philosophers and researchers in various schools. In the meantime, Western philosophy has played a more prominent role in theorizing and applying the issue of dignity; as an example one may refer to Kant's philosophical and ethical views, which have been widely used by legal and academic agents in the contemporary world. Given the breadth of Kant's views on dignity in various books, the interpretations made from Kant's perspective often seem fragmentary, partial, and lacking in comprehensiveness. Therefore, the present study, employing the meta-analytic method, has attempted to study all of Kant's works on human dignity and present a critical reading of this issue from the perspective of the Western intra-paradigmatic and Islamic epistemology, while also studying all of Kant's works on human dignity. The results showed that Kant's view on human dignity can be criticized from the perspective of the Western intra-paradigm, in at least twelve dimensions. From the epistemological perspective of Islam, Kant's view on the mechanism of realizing value dignity and the finiteness of the degree of human transcendence, the understanding of dignity and a dignified life, as well as the difference in the nature of reason relied on in realizing dignity, faces some shortcomings.
Keywords
Islam
Kant
Dignity
Moral Metaphysics
Human Transcendence
Human Rights
Subjects
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Religious Anthroplogy
Volume 22, Issue 54
Research Paper
July 2026
Pages 251-269