The totality of the thinkable
<p>This thesis presents four chapters that address the theological and epistemological views of Immanuel Kant. Although each of the four chapters addresses a discrete problem, the chapters are united in their focus on the idea of the ‘totality of the thinkable’ and the related idea of a totali...
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| description | <p>This thesis presents four chapters that address the theological and epistemological views of Immanuel Kant. Although each of the four chapters addresses a discrete problem, the chapters are united in their focus on the idea of the ‘totality of the thinkable’ and the related idea of a totality of possible concepts. In particular, this thesis explores the ways in which the totality of the thinkable is implicated in Kant’s criticisms of his German rationalist predecessors.</p>
<p>Chapter One explores Kant’s claim that the representation of God within transcendental theology has its origin in reason’s tendency to generate an idea of the totality of the thinkable (the omnitudo realitatis, in Kant’s terminology). It argues that existing interpretations of Kant’s claim cannot explain why reason generates the omnitudo realitatis. Chapter Two offers a novel account of the origin of the omnitudo realitatis in reason’s faulty effort to supply itself with a prototypical version of transcendental philosophy. Chapter Three explains how the omnitudo realitatis subsequently becomes the representation of God within transcendental theology, in the process addressing whether or not Kant endorsed a ‘Spinozistic’ conception of God. Chapter Four addresses the idea of God within Kant’s moral philosophy. It explains why Kant continually insists, in the Critical period, that his moral arguments are capable of justifying belief in a being with infinitely great properties.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:686d830b-130a-4471-93b4-ac89c0f55f272023-04-18T15:43:50ZThe totality of the thinkableThesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06uuid:686d830b-130a-4471-93b4-ac89c0f55f27epistemologytheologyphilosophyKantEnglishHyrax Deposit2023Krishnan, MMoore, AGomes, A<p>This thesis presents four chapters that address the theological and epistemological views of Immanuel Kant. Although each of the four chapters addresses a discrete problem, the chapters are united in their focus on the idea of the ‘totality of the thinkable’ and the related idea of a totality of possible concepts. In particular, this thesis explores the ways in which the totality of the thinkable is implicated in Kant’s criticisms of his German rationalist predecessors.</p> <p>Chapter One explores Kant’s claim that the representation of God within transcendental theology has its origin in reason’s tendency to generate an idea of the totality of the thinkable (the omnitudo realitatis, in Kant’s terminology). It argues that existing interpretations of Kant’s claim cannot explain why reason generates the omnitudo realitatis. Chapter Two offers a novel account of the origin of the omnitudo realitatis in reason’s faulty effort to supply itself with a prototypical version of transcendental philosophy. Chapter Three explains how the omnitudo realitatis subsequently becomes the representation of God within transcendental theology, in the process addressing whether or not Kant endorsed a ‘Spinozistic’ conception of God. Chapter Four addresses the idea of God within Kant’s moral philosophy. It explains why Kant continually insists, in the Critical period, that his moral arguments are capable of justifying belief in a being with infinitely great properties.</p> |
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