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Comparing Kant's Argument On God And Belief

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This project will focus on the themes of Kant’s argument on God and Belief, and the significance that it has been addressed in discussion of the absence of presence of God. Primary in this line of inquiry is the question of whether Kant admits or rejects God-is dead topic. I will be primarily focused on the following two questions: What is Kant’s argument on God and belief? What are the Kant’s various attempts to address the God and belief is and what are the implications of these attempts?
Kant relates God with moral philosophy terms, the transcendental God or the absolute God. Kant sees the affirmation of a "pure moral disposition of the heart" that "can make man well-pleasing to God", this pure disposition Kant points to the human reason. While Kant’s answer on the absence of God has also philosophically played in bringing in which Belief and unbelief …show more content…

These critiques come from a variety of thinkers, many of the articulations of the emptiness critique follow a similar argument, but for different philosophical reasons and in different literary contexts. I intend on investigating the various versions of the emptiness critique and how they relate to one another. These thinkers claimed that human reason is not sufficient to prove the existence of a transcendent God, there are typically two criticism to Kant. He is as harsh in his critique of atheists as he is of dogmatists. On the one hand, Kant is an atheist because he knows that there is no God, but he makes the error as the dogmatist claim that we know what cannot possibly be known. On the other hand, Kant’s human reason, or specially, Kant calls speculative or theoretical reason, is not compatible with his religious faith. Human reason itself seems to fall the philosophical stone that human reason is not the ground for believing in a transcendent

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