Kant: It is Impossible to Prove God Exists as Real
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:45 am
In the CPR of Kant under Transcendental Dialectic: Ideal, Kant argued it is impossible to prove God exists as real. [NK Smith's Translation]
- Chapter III. The Ideal of Pure Reason .... 485
Section 1. The Ideal-in-General ..... 485
Section 2. The Transcendental Ideal .... 487
Section 3. The Arguments of Speculative Reason in Proof of the Existence of a Supreme Being .... 495
Section 4. The Impossibility of an Ontological Proof of the Existence of God ... 500
Section 5. The Impossibility of a Cosmological Proof of the Existence of God ...... 507
Discovery and Explanation of the Dialectical Illusion in all Transcendental Proofs of the Existence of a Necessary Being 514
Section 6. The Impossibility of the Physico-theological Proof 518
Section 7. Critique of all Theology based upon
Speculative Principles of Reason . . . . . 525
- 1. It is impossible to prove God exists as real based on the Ontological Argument,
2. All arguments for the existence of God are reducible to the Ontological Argument,
3. It is impossible to prove God exists as real at all.