Arguments for the existence of God: Pre-critical period
Among the three early works noted above, Kant's most focused
treatment of these arguments for the existence of God can be found
in
The One Possible Basis for a Demonstration of the Existence of
God
. He classifies arguments for God under just two headings, one
that moves to the affirmation of God from a rational concept of the
possible, the second that moves from experiential concepts of
existent things. The ontological argument, as well as the argument
Kant himself poses in this work as the only valid one, fall under
the first heading. The cosmological and the physico-theological
arguments fall under the second heading.
With respect to the positions about the validity and value of
theoretical arguments for the existence of God that Kant later
espouses and which are considered his definitive views, there are
three features worth noting from this earlier work:
First, he has already formulated a central feature of the main
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- Spring '09
- FAULDERS
- Logic, Kant, Ontology, Existence
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