The Idea of God and the Empirical Investigation of Nature in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason

Kantian Review 27 (2):279-297 (2022)
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This article aims to justify the positive role in the empirical investigation of nature that Kant attributes to the idea of God in the Critique of Pure Reason. In particular, I propose to read the Transcendental Ideal section and the Appendix to the Transcendental Dialectic together to see whether they can reciprocally illuminate each other. I argue that it is only by looking at the transcendental deduction of the ideas of reason and the resulting analogical conception of God that a fully legitimate positive use of the idea of God can be vindicated.

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Lorenzo Spagnesi
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