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The ens realissimum and necessary being in The Critique of Pure Reason

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 December 2001

LAWRENCE PASTERNACK
LAWRENCE PASTERNACK
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Oklahoma State University, 308 Hanner Hall, Stillwater, OK 74078–5064
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Just prior to The Critique of Pure Reason's examination of the various arguments for God's existence, Kant discusses the conceptual relationship between the idea of an ens realissimum and that of a necessary being. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the extent to which this discussion informs his claim that the cosmological argument depends upon the ontological argument.

Type
Research Article
Information
Religious Studies , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , December 2001 , pp. 467 - 474
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press