Kant et les preuves de l’existence de Dieu
Kant and the Proofs of God’s Existence

Summary/Abstract: The concept of being seems to lose its meaning as long as its consistency is threatened by the flow of time that sweeps everything away in its path. All along the history of Philosophy, the idea of God became the perfect subject capable of sustaining the full meaning of an eternal foundation of all otherwise evanescent beings. Kant is the last philosopher who tries to prove the existence of such a supreme being. We remind here the three main classical proofs that are usually advanced to substantiate such a claim and the original manner in which Kant criticizes, for the first time ever, all three of them for not being able to really demonstrate the reality of such a necessary being. The conclusion of Kant is that this concept is impossible to be proved for the pure reason as it is imperative for the practical reason to suppose as real, in one way or another. Finally, God, as the necessary ground of any existing thing in the world, remains an ideal of pure practical reason.

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