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In "The Only Possible Argument in Support of a Demonstration of the Existence of God," Immanuel Kant critiques traditional arguments for God's existence and attempts to establish a rational foundation for the concept of God based on the necessity of a supreme being as the ultimate ground of all poss…
Summary. The Only Possible Argument in Support of a Demonstration of the Existence of God ( German: Der einzig mögliche Beweisgrund zu einer Demonstration des Daseins Gottes) is a book by Immanuel Kant, published in 1763. It was published during the earlier period of Kant's philosophy, often referred to as the "pre-critical" period, during ...
to present an attempt to explain the origin of the system of the universe in terms of the general laws of mechanics. The explanation relates, not to the entire order of nature, but only to the great masses of matter and their orbits, which constitute the most primitive foundation of nature.
In OPA he explicitly maintained the opposite view: the possibility proof is the ‘only possible argument’ and superior to all other arguments, including the cosmological argument from contingency. The specific criticism of the cosmological argument in OPA (2: 158) is similar to the one levelled in the Critique (A604–7/B632–5), and shows that it implicitly depends on the Cartesian ...
Reason , Kant develops a unique argument in support of the possibility of such a demonstration. It is obvious that the Critical Kant can no longer maintain the validity of the argument which he presents in The Only Possible Argument in Support of a Demonstration of the Existence of God (1763); however, it is not obvious exactly how Kant proves that
In the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant famously argues for the impossibil-ity of proving the existence of God by refuting three arguments, the onto-logical, the cosmological and the physico-theological. He also criticizes these arguments in the pre-Critical period. Yet in texts from this period Kant also presented his unique theoretical argument ...
T he Only Possible Argument The only possible argument in sup-port of a demonstration of the existence of God Physical Monadology The employment in natural philosophy of metaphysics combined with geometry, of which sample I contains the physical monadology Other abbreviations are as follows: GW The Critique of Pure Reason , edited
