tions we can get very cold weather during the summer. He is so skeptical against miracles, that he says he cannot even believe someone claiming to have witnessed a miracle, without first examining their reason for making such a claim. In order to believe a claim, their trust he must first learn the purity of their intentions. By this I mean he must first consider whether or not the person’s judgment was deceived by their senses and next why the person is telling him about the miracle and what they have to gain by trying to deceive him. In order for him to consider the possibility of a miracle actually occurring would be if a person publicly made a claim to have witnessed the miracle and if them telling about it would jeopardize them more than if they had not said anything. Then and only then would he be able to be sure that a person was not motivated by any other force when claiming that what they saw was actually a miracle. Because of his philosophy In Kantian philosophy, the idea of a god only exists in theological idea, although the idea of god and its presence is very well noted through his writings. He explains that there is an Idea of Reason named the Theological Idea. This idea of reason is one in which addresses the question at hand. The theological approach is one that holds the idea of a supreme perfect first being. This reason did not rise from experience but from bare concepts of what would constitute the absolute completeness of a thing in general (pg.102).The supreme perfect first being, god in this case, would have a totality of knowledge and understanding. I think that this is an illusion. According to Kant, an illusion is when you take something that is subjective and make it objective. God is a concept, a being that as a society we have given personification to. Since this is a theological idea, it’s a pure concept of reason and therefore are used merely for the sake of self-satisfaction (pg.103). Since we...
