Kants Conception Of God
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KANTS CONCEPTION OF GOD- A CRITICAL EXPOSITION OF ITS METAPHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT TOGETHER WITH A TRANSLATION OF THE NOVA DILUCIDATIO by F. E. England. Originally published in 1929. PREFATORY NOTE: THIS essay is an attempt to follow critically the development of Kants metaphysical thought with special reference to the concept of God, a concept which furnishes a sort of vantage ground from which to -estimate tM6 significance of the changes in Kants philosophical outlook, while itself re maining throughout substantially the same in content. I shall try to show that in his recoil from the speculative metaphysics of the Wolffian school Kant continued to conceive of the universe, after the manner of Leibniz, r as consisting of substances whose reciprocal commercium was made possible through their common origin as essences in the being of God. After tracing briefly the gradual emer gence of those considerations which ultimately led to the critical position, I shall try to show that by viewing epistemology as a species of logic Kant was led to a confused exposition of the critical doctrine of judgment, and in particular of the function of the categories. There upon I shall endeavour to make clear that from the critical premises rightly construed, the subjectivism characteristic of one trend of Kants thought does not follow, and that what has been called his phenomenalism must be seriously qualified. The categories will not, that is to say, evince themselves as constitutive of objects, but as principles of interpretation, and the critical theory of knowledge will not render metaphysics impossible Kant himself declared 3 that the transcendental philosophy had for its object the founding of metaphysics, but prepare the ground for a new meta physics. Turning to the concept of God in the critical period, I shall seek to justify the position that Kants artificial deduction of the Ideal of pure reason and his general Kant was influenced but little by Spinozas philosophy. KANTS CO
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