Kant saw Judaism’s separatism as misanthropy and Islam’s victories as pride

Evidence

The various kinds of belief among peoples seem to give them, after a time, a character, revealing itself outwardly in civil relations, which is later attributed to them as though it were universally a temperamental trait. Thus Judaism in its original economy, under which a people was to separate itself from all other peoples by means of every conceivable, and some arduous, observances and was to refrain from all intermingling with them, drew down upon itself tl1e charge of misanthropy. Mohammedanism is characterized by pride because it finds confirmation of its faith not in miracles but in victories and subjugation of many peoples, and because its devotional practices are all of the spirited sort” (Kant, Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone, 172/G858). Kant is certainly pursuing the train of thought begun in Critique of judgment; including his reflections on subjection. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 1158 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Kant assigned Jews misanthropy and Muslims pride as religious temperaments — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 1158; Kant grounded both Jewish enthusiasm and Muslim pride in one shared prohibition — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 608; The Kantian sublime’s emotional dynamics frame the Jew-Islam political-religious comparison — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 596

Broader Connections

• Kant assigned Jews misanthropy and Muslims pride as religious temperaments #expands (0.95) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 1158