Leibniz and Kant on God

• Gutschmidt, Holger ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Göttingen Philosophisches Seminar Humboldtallee 19 37073 Göttingen (Germany)
• Localización: Revista de Estudios Kantianos: Publicación internacional de la Sociedad de Estudios Kantianos en Lengua Española, ISSN-e 2445-0669, Vol. 8, Nº. 2, 2023 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Revista de Estudios Kantianos), págs. 414-431
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Is Immanuel Kant’s critique of the proofs of God’s existence accurate? In order to answer this question, I analyse Leibniz’ proof in his “Monadology” and I determine the relation between the cosmological and the ontological version of this proof. Since Kant often refers (implicitly) to Leibniz’ argument, I examine Kant’s critique of rational theology in the Critique of Pure Reason in the light of Leibniz’ strategy. Kant’s critique of Leibniz’ argument is partly biased by his own concept of “transcendental idealism” and fails to reject it. On the other hand, many questions in Leibniz’ attempt remain still open.