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- Feb 7, 2013Omar,I wasn't giving a philosophical argument. In the matter of Kant's religion there are two views to consider: the Kant thatwrote about an intellectual concept of "God," and the Kant that fell to his knees and praised God when he observeda swallow casting its babies out of the nest to their inevitable deaths."The personal influences on Kant are neither here nor there where philosophical argument is concerned, or ad hominems would count.Subjective necessity has a specific meaning in critical philosophy: it refers to reflective judgment, the subject specifically of the third Critique. We can't prove God's existence, but can show why it provides a crucial moral appendage to a reason that demands that what we ought to do, we should see as being possible to accomplish, when all the facts seem otherwise. Reflective judgement, which has no power to guarantee such a result, still allows us to count as rational in the expectation."
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