ABSTRACT
This chapter considers Immanuel Kant's views on the regulative nature of the idea of God by considering the relationship between John Hick and Gordon Kaufman's positions and transcendental idealism. There are two camps into which interpretations of Kant's transcendental idealism must fall: the two-realm camp, and a one-realm camp. According to the Kant of the two-realm account, it is only because categories such as causation are imposed on experience by the conceptual activity of the mind that we can have anything like objective certainty about their empirical reality. A more important use of the noumenal realm for Kant is the role it plays in his moral philosophy. One of the possible interpretations of Kant was the two-realm account: ontologically speaking there are two realms, the noumenal realm and the phenomenal realm. The noumenal realm is by definition non-spatial and non-temporal, the whole of the spatial temporal framework being constituted by the activity of the human mind.
