Ontological argument Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===G. W. F. Hegel=== In response to Kant's rejection of traditional speculative philosophy in his ''First Critique,'' and to Kant's rejection of the Ontological Argument, [[G. W. F. Hegel]] proposed throughout his lifetime works that Immanuel Kant was mistaken. Hegel took aim at Kant's famous $100 argument. Kant had said that "it is one thing to have $100 in my ''mind'', and quite a different thing to have $100 in my ''pocket''." According to Kant, we can ''imagine'' a God, but that doesn't prove that God ''exists''. Hegel argued that Kant's formulation was inaccurate. Hegel referred to Kant's error in all of his major works from 1807 to 1831. For Hegel, "The True is the Whole" (PhG, para. 20). For Hegel, the True is the ''Geist'' which is to say, Spirit, which is to say, God. Thus God is the Whole of the Cosmos, both unseen as well as seen. This error of Kant, therefore, was his comparison of a finite (contingent) entity such as $100, with Infinite (necessary) Being, i.e. the Whole. When regarded as the Whole of Being, unseen as well as seen, and not simply "one being among many," then the Ontological Argument flourishes, and its logical necessity becomes obvious, according to Hegel. The final book contract that Hegel signed in the year that he died, 1831, was for a book entitled, ''Lectures on the Proofs of the Existence of God.'' Hegel died before finishing the book. It was to have three sections: (1) The Cosmological Argument; (2) The Teleological Argument; and (3) the Ontological Argument. Hegel died before beginning sections 2 and 3. His work is published today as incomplete, with only part of his Cosmological Argument intact. To peruse Hegel's ideas on the Ontological Argument, scholars have had to piece together his arguments from various paragraphs from his other works. Certain scholars have suggested that all of Hegel's philosophy composes an ontological argument.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2021/entries/ontological-arguments/|title=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy|first=Graham|last=Oppy|editor-first=Edward N.|editor-last=Zalta|date=August 17, 2021|publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University|via=Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Hegel |first=G. W. F. |title=Hegel: Lectures on the Proofs of the Existence of God |date=2011-12-17 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-969469-3 |edition=Reprint |location=Oxford, England |language=En-uk |translator-last=Hodgson |translator-first=Peter C. |orig-date=1831}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page