Lectures on the Proofs of the Existence of God

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LECTURES ON THE PROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD (1829) First Lecture The Occasion for These Lectures Discrediting of the Proofs in Modern Culture Faith and Reason The Elevation of the Human Spirit to God Second Lecture Subjective Proof and Finite Knowledge The Turn to Faith Third Lecture Faith, Immediacy, and Mediation Transition to Feeling Fourth Lecture Feeling Fifth Lecture Summary of the Preceding Argument Can God Be Known? Sixth Lecture An Affirmative Approach The Historical Aspect The Proof from Consensus The Metaphysical Proof Seventh Lecture Critique of the Metaphysics of Natural Theology The Speculative Concept Eighth Lecture The Multiplicity of Proofs and the One God Ninth Lecture 88 Two Kinds of Proof Modes of Connection between Being and Concept The Three Proofs Tenth Lecture 93 The Cosmological Proof The Categories of Contingency and Necessity Eleventh Lecture 101 The Argument from Contingency to Necessity The Proofs and Logic The Nature of Necessity Twelfth Lecture 107 Critique of Absolute Necessity Thirteenth Lecture 111 The Defect in the Argument from Contingency to Necessity No Passage from the Finite to the Infinite? Fourteenth Lecture 119 The Finitude of Spirit The Infinitude of Spirit The Community of God and Humanity with Each Other Fifteenth Lecture 127 The Speculative View of the Transition from Finite to Infinite Sixteenth Lecture 133 Religions of Absolute Necessity The Pantheism of Absolute Necessity Characteristics of Systems of Substantiality ON THE COSMOLOGICAL PROOF 147 A Fragment THE TELEOLOGICAL PROOF From the 1831 Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion THE ONTOLOGICAL PROOF From the 1831 Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion