A Critical Examination on Kant s Religious Argument for God’s Existence: Concerning Palmquist’s Analysis

In this article, I critically examine the religious argument for the existence of God, which Palmquist formulated from Kant’s Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason. After showing the structure of the argument, I point the problematic point of the argument and focus on the concept of Gesinnung . The privateness of Gesinnung is problematized in the analysis of it, and I briefly suggest that an alternative account of the Gesinnung is possible. Yet I emphasize the advantage that this argument has compared to other competing arguments.

I. Introduction

II. The Outline of the Religious Argument

III. The Concept of Gesinnung in Moral Agency

IV. Inscrutability of Gesinnung and an Alternative Model

V. Concluding Remarks: Significance of the Religious Argument

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