ABSTRACT

It is with very moderate enthusiasm that a twentieth-century philosopher enters the field of philosophical theology, even to follow Kant's exposure of its illusions. The quality of Kant's presentation of his own doctrines seems to suffer some deterioration as he approaches this subject. His dismissive analysis of the three "proofs" of God's existence - the only possible three, according to him - has, at least superficially, an admirable crispness and clarity. But the approach to this bright triptych of argument is shadowed in confusion.