Immanuel Kant i ontologiczny dowód na istnienie Boga

• Authors: Surzun Jacek

Title variants

EN

Immanuel Kant and the ontological demonstration of God’s existence

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This article discusses the critical position of Immanuel Kant towards the tradition of so called ontological proof of God’s existence. Kant treats the proof sceptically – he is convinced that any proof of God’s existence is impossible. However, Kant accepts the concept of God as the idea of pure reason, i.e. a sum of total positive “properties” and the ideal of pure reason. This ideal – an unconditional possibility of all – has a positive sense, but only as a formal concept. The ideal of pure reason – God is not something existing in reality, but it is only a postulate of pure reason and an a priori source idea. According to Kant, any attempt at finding a proof of real existence of this ideal (and in consequence of God’s real existence) makes no sense because it has no “objective” content and this ideal is only a formal condition of transcendental knowledge.

Keywords

PL

Bóg; dowód ontologiczny; czysty rozum; idee a priori

EN

God; ontological proof; pure reason; a priori idea

• Publisher: Uniwersytet w Białymstoku. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
• Journal: IDEA. Studia nad strukturą i rozwojem pojęć filozoficznych
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 26
• Pages: 77-96

Contributors

author

Surzun Jacek

• dr hab. Jacek Surzyn – Wydział Nauk Społecznych UŚ w Katowicach

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