The Difference Of Kant's View Of God Between The Pre-critical Period And The Critical Period

In the grand background,all kinds of religious ideas had provided wealthy nutrition for Kant.With the rapid development of the empiricism and atheism in France,the freedom,democracy,charity and human rights gave Kant enlightenment.The highest good was synonymous of them.At the same time,the theism,shifting from the entity theory to the moral and perfectionism,was marginalised.Now God stepped down and became an affiliation,it needed the basis of existence----moral.Therefore,the structure of Kant's religious thought and the idea of God were the concentration of the religious ideological background of this era.Not only the empiricism and the rationalism provided the necessary tension in Kant's theory,but also theism and atheism did.By comparing the pre-critical period with the critical period,such as General Natural History and Theory of Celestial Bodies,Try to Make Some Investigation on Optimism and To Prove That There Is Only Possible Proof of God's Existence and three critiques,we could think that in the pre-critical,led by Leibniz-Wolf's philosophy system,he used the natural scientific method based on mathematics to study the problem of God,however,he used the method of transcendental philosophy to think about God in the critical period.There were different paradigms in the pre-critical period and the critical period.Based on the different patterns,the ways and the mediums of proving God,the cognitive and understanding methods of God showed obvious difference.In the pre-critical period,he mainly proved that there was a dominant proof of the existence of God according to the natural science.In Kantian early stage,the dominant God existed,or at least he believed that there was a God in somewhere.The nature's purposefulness and proportion were the proofs of the God's existence.Although it was not clear to him,but at least he could find some evidence by natural scientific reasoning or rational reasoning which was proposed in the enlightenment.However,Kant did not criticize the reason at that time and lost to prove the existence of God in a precise way.Kant believed that his way was different with the philosophers of the past for healthy reason.However,in the critical period,Kant divided thing in itself and phenomenon.Through his analysis,our cognitive ability was limited only for the phenomenal world.For those belonging to the field of thing in itself,we could only use the means of analogy and assumption to imagine its existence.So we could prove a hidden God.In addition,for our practical reason,God needed to be set up as a guide to human action to meet the expectations of the future.Kantian Shifting between the two paradigms was due to the impact of Hume and Rousseau's enlightenment.They had a profound influence in Kant,which made him realize the transformation of the paradigms.The key of Kantian philosophy was starting from the point of the humanity.Around the ration,Kant explored the nature,freedom,ethics,morality,religion,and got the truth,the good and the beautiful In the name of human.Ration and religion had boundary for each other.Of course,for our human,we can't know God by our restricted thinking,however,we could assume its existence.So' what we could negate is not God but the way of proving the existence of God.In the scene of the critique philosophy,God only exited to the background,reason and morality could be free to show on.The highest good would become the ultimate goal for rational people going after the moral.In such a situation,even if the whole nature was still the creation of the supreme creator,the nature should be still consistent with our moral purpose.Otherwise the world,without reason,would be desultorily.God became assumption of moral and a symbol.Its existence was based on moral,not itself.So,Kant had completed the transition between subject and object or moral and God,and realized the Copernican Revolution of the view of God.By comparing the pre-critical period with the critical period,the Kantian convictions and paths were significantly different,and we could get a better grasp of his original concept of God.