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The impetus for this blog is to invite free expression of any and all thought concerning the existence, nature or relevance of the divine. The general idea being to post questions, revelations, experiences, interests, discontents, emotions, philosophies, epistemological or metaphysical bends, or political views pertaining to God and his/her existence and overall bearing on the proverbial course of human events
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Why is it necessary?
This particular quote concludes Kant’s refutations of the classic proofs for the existence of God. It also seems to echo a constant philosophical understanding of God woven throughout his writings wherein he implies that it is often “necessary to sublate knowledge, in order to make room for faith.” In short, Kant’s writings on the divine are essentially predicated on what he sees as a distinction between faith in God and demonstrative proof/knowledge of God’s existence. He argued that many philosophical theologians (“fanatics of faith” or “dream castle builders” of reason) wrongly base their “proofs” for the existence of God on anthropomorphic analogies, which, he contends, give rise only to subjective arguments from mystical experience. Kant essentially holds that the proper place for God is found only in the moral meaning of God and how such meaning pertains to reverence to the moral law. In sum, the use of “necessary” in the quote in question reflects the realization of the necessity of the divine in the ultimate end of a “postulate of pure practical reason” as it relates to finitely rational, autonomous agents self-legislating themselves under the moral law. Consequently, it is unnecessary (an ostensibly irrational) for one to endeavor logical demonstrations for the existence of God.
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