İMKÂNDELİLİNDEN TRANSANDANTAL İDEALE: KANT'TA TANRI KAVRAMININ KÖKLERİ.

Kant is well known with his criticism of the theistic arguments. His criticism of those arguments are consistent with his theoreticalphilosophy. But before his criticism in the Critique of Pure Reason (CPR), under the title of “ideal of pure reason” and “transcendental ideal,” he tries to show the necessity and naturality of the concept of God as the transcendental ideal. Kant’s views on the transcendental ideal arerathersimilar with his “possibility argument” which he develops in his pre-critical writings. While rejecting all the theistic arguments in the CPR Kant does not mention his “possibility argument”; does not reject it. But it is mentioned in the Lectures on The Philosophical Doctrine of Religion with praises.Although hestill thinks that no argument is capable of showing the existence of god, he thinks that the“possibility argument” showsthe necessity of God subjectively.Kant needs this natural and necessary ideal for his moral theology so that the moral God should not turn out to be a fiction.