The essay collection "Kant on Proofs for God's Existence" provides a
highly needed, comprehensive analysis of the radical turns of Kant's
views on proofs for God's existence.—In the "Theory of Heavens"
(1755), Kant intends to harmonize the Newtonian laws of motion with a
physico-theological argument for the existence of God. But only a few
years later, in the "Ground of Proof" essay (1763), Kant defends an
ontological ('possibility' or 'modal') argument on the basis of its
logical exactitude while he praises the physico-theological argument
for its beauty and appeal to the common sense. In the first "Critique"
(1781/7), Kant replaces traditional constitutive ontological,
cosmological, and physico-theological proofs with his own regulative
theoretical and moral-practical religious arguments. He continues to
defend a moral argument in the second "Critique" (1788). But in the
third "Critique" (1790), Kant reintroduces a physico-theological
besides an ethicotheological argument in order to unify the critical
system of philosophy. Kant develops further moral arguments and
arguments from evil in the "Theodicy" essay (1791) and the "Religion"
(1793/4), and still searches for the right kind of proof for God's
existence in the "Opus postumum" (1796–1804).—Part one of this
volume is dedicated to an analysis of Kant's proofs for God's
existence in their historical order that explains which proofs Kant
favors or rejects in various periods of his thought. Part two contains
a systematic classification of main kinds of proof for God's existence
in Kant that outlines the argumentative structure of particular kinds
of proof and discusses Kant's potential reasons for their variations
and modifications. The essay collection speaks to Kant specialists,
philosophers, and theologians, but introduces the topic to
non-academic readers also.
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9783110689006
Publisert
2023
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De Gruyter
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Engelsk
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