Ontological proof — Articles — Ilario Colli

Based in New York City, Ilario Colli is an author, philosopher and former classical music journalist. He has been called “Australia’s leading classical music critic” and his first published book, In Art as in Life, has been described as “a major achievement for any writer.”his achievements also include a groundbreaking essay on the sublime and the founding of a new art movement, ‘Sublimism’.

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Kant and the Death of God

May 7

May 7 Kant and the Death of God

Philosophy, Enlightenment, Theology

In this paper, I attempt to explore he idea that Kant ‘killed’ god – and I will do so chiefly by applying Kant’s refutations of the ontological proof to some of its most prominent instantiations through history, those of Anselm, Descartes and Spinoza.