“Stoics Mistook their Enemy”
Kant observes, “ those valiant men (the Stoics) mistook their enemy, who is not to be sought in the natural inclinations, which merely lack of discipline and openly display themselves unconcealed to everyone’s consciousness, but it rather as it were an invisible enemy, one who hides behind reason and hence all more dangerous.” Stoics are famed for the longstanding endorsement of morals. Their inability to accurately discern the imperceptible enemy of morality is uncanny. Evidently, the Stoics overemphasized on the superficial display of virtues and disregarded the indiscernible outlooks (epitomized by ‘the human heart’) which are unfavorable to morality.
The Irony of 'Theistic Miracles'
Kant observes, “For, as regards the theistic miracles, reason can at least have a negative criterion at its disposal, namely, if something is represented as commanded by God in a direct manifestation of him yet is directly in conflict with morality, it cannot be a divine miracle despite every appearance of being one (e.g if a father were ordered to kill his son who, so far as he knows, is totally innocent).” Unreligious miracles may be tailored to bid the misleading impression that they are sanctioned by God. Such miracles contravene moral principles but their performances invoke God to amplify their credibility. Reasoning is imperative is discriminating religious and theistic miracles.
