An Examination of Baumgarten's Natural Theology as a Context of Kant's Teleology

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K01984
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Philosophy/Ethics
• Research Institution: University of Tsukuba
• Principal Investigator: HIGAKI Yoshishige 筑波大学, 人文社会系, 教授 (10289283)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 哲学 / 思想史 / バウムガルテン / カント / 自然神学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I examined Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten’s “natural theology” in his "Metaphysica" (1739 Halle. 4.Auflage, 1757). The result of the examination was that Baumgarten’s theory about “the intellect of God” and “the will of God” can be understood more clearly in the connection with the fundamental principles of modern “rationalism”. The true meaning of Kant’s concept “intellectual intuition” was also discovered in contrast with Baumgarten’s concept “the knowledge of God” in his Metaphysica.

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人文学