Cosmotheology

Cosmotheology

The term cosmotheology, along with the term "ontotheology", was coined by Immanuel Kant "in order to distinguish between two competing types of "transcendental theology"[1]

Kant defined the relationship between ontotheology and cosmostheology as follows:

"Transcendental theology aims either at inferring the existence of a Supreme Being from a general experience, without any closer reference to the world to which this experience belongs, and in this case it is called cosmotheology; or it endeavours to cognize the existence of such a being, through mere conceptions, without the aid of experience, and is then termed ontotheology."[1]

Notes and references

  1. ^ a b Kant, Immanuel, Critique of Pure Reason, Section VII

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