The One Possible Basis for a Demonstration of the Existence of God (Der Einzig Mögliche Beweisgrund). Translation and introduction by Gordon Treash.

Kant, Immanuel:

ISBN 10: 0803277776 / ISBN 13: 9780803277779

Editore: Lincoln ; London : University of Nebraska Press, 1994

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247 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Partly bleached binding, somewhat stained top edge, otherwise good and clean. Texts in English and German (old German font). - The search for God is dictated not from without but from a profound sense of ones own moral being and worthiness to be happy. The core of Immanuel Kants argument remains relevant to the experience of ordinary men and women. He wished to strengthen, not undermine, belief in God and in the spiritual nature of humankind. This 1763 essay is important in understanding the development of Kants thought. It exposed the flaw in the Cartesian argument that the existence of a perfect being could be deduced from an idea or concept of such. Similarly, Kant saw the problem inherent in the Leibnizian view of a philosophical system modeled on mathematics: a philosopher who, like a mathematician, began with an arbitrary definition remained trapped in a circle of words. In The One Possible Basis for a Demonstration of the Existence of God, Kant diverged from the familiar forms of ontological argument. The result was a brilliant approach to divine being that anticipated his mature Critique of Pure Reason. With this Bison Book edition, The One Possible Basis appears in paperback for the first time. Gordon Treashs English translation, the only modern one, faces pages containing the original German. Treash, who is a professor of philosophy at Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, edited, with Paul A. Bogaard, Metaphysics as Foundation: Essays in Honor of Ivor Leclerc. Also available as a Bison Book is Kants last major essay, The Conflict of the Faculties (1992). ISBN 9780803277779 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 270.

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• Titolo: The One Possible Basis for a Demonstration of the Existence of God (Der Einzig Mögliche Beweisgrund). Translation and introduction by Gordon Treash.
• Editore: Lincoln ; London : University of Nebraska Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0803277776
• ISBN 13: 9780803277779
• Rilegatura: Original softcover.
• Condizione: Gut
• Peso: 270 grammi
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Philosophie

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The search for God is dictated not from without but from a profound sense of one's own moral being and worthiness to be happy. The core of Immanuel Kant's argument remains relevant to the experience of ordinary men and women. He wished to strengthen, not undermine, belief in God and in the spiritual nature of humankind.

This 1763 essay is imporrtant in understanding the development of Kant's thought. It exposed the flaw in the Cartesian argument that the existence of a perfect being could be deduced from an idea or concept of such. Similarly, Kant saw the problem inherent in the Leibnizian view of a philosophical system modeled on mathematics: a philosopher who, like a mathematician, began with an arbitrary definition remained trapped in a circle of words. In The One Possible Basis for a Demonstration of the Existence of God, Kant diverged from the familiar forms of ontological argument. The result was a brilliant approach to divine being that anticipated his mature Critique of Pure Reason.

With this Bison Book edition, The One Possible Basis appears in paperback for the first time. Gordon Treash's English translation, the only modern one, faces pages containing the original German. Treash, who is a professor of philosophy at Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, edited, with Paul A. Bogaard, Metaphysics as Foundation: Essays in Honor of Ivor Leclerc. Also available as a Bison Book is Kant's last major essay, The Conflict of the Faculties (1992).