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You're ahead of the dialogue, hosepipe.
Kant loses the image of God in his transcendental reason.
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Kant is one proof that disobedience is much much more hard work than obedience.. Amazing that it takes a pile of lies/error to cover up a truth/reality..
You're ahead of the dialogue, hosepipe. Kant loses the image of God in his transcendental reason.
I'm not an expert in philosophy or the history of philosophy etc. With my limited knowledge on the subject, I find Kant's existence to be quite strange[lame joke sorry [there are volumes written on the word 'existence']] [who really understands Kant anyway?]....
I never understood how Kant was a critic of Anselm's "ontological argument" for the existence of God: from the idea of God as including all perfections to including the perfection of actual existence. (I think this is slightly different from Descartes's version of Anselm's argument for the existence of God: from the perfection of the idea of God to the equal perfection of its cause.)
Then Kant turns around and writes the moral argument for the existence of God from the need for the moral ideal of perfection to be actual or instantiated. [I think this particular derivative of the moral argument is original to Kant]
Kant seems strange to me...seems like the objections are similar, however similar is not equivalent.....help here anyone?....perhaps can just be resolved with the simple statement no one is consistent except God alone. The philosopher then asks the question is God consistent or a paradox...about now I am going crazy...perhaps when talking about Kant 'philosophical FreedomProtector' is an oxymoronic statement.
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