ABSTRACT
Kant's detailed discussion of the three types of proof brought forward by his predecessors, with a view to demonstrating the existence of God, he gives a general outline of the procedure adopted in ontological argument. Kant's disquisition upon what he calls the Transcendental Theology makes an unpromising start. Kant is convinced that the notion of an all-embracing reality is, in the first instance, entirely confined to the sphere of logic. Kant's belief that inference from contingent to necessary existence has an overwhelming degree of initial plausibility, and that it is perfectly natural in every way, must be kept clearly in mind, if the student is to be in a position to arrive at a proper understanding of the somewhat complex attitude he takes up towards the ontological proof. Kant's suggestion that acceptance of the cosmological argument implies rejection of the ontological one cannot be allowed to stand.
