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‘Kant’s early writings such as The One Possible Basis for a Demonstration of the Existence of God engage the concept of God in terms of principles and arguments that had been framed by the metaphysical systems of Leibniz and Wolff as well as by the theoretical structure of Newtonian physics. Kant had not yet articulated a definitive break with the approach of the rationalist metaphysics of his predecessors, so his discussions presuppose the validity of the enterprise of constructing an adequate theoretical argument for the existence of God. Even so, he makes a number of points in these works that prefigure key arguments that his mature critical philosophy will later raise against the way rationalist metaphysics had traditionally treated the status and function of the concept of God. In particular … he has already formulated a central feature of the main objection that he will raise against the ontological argument in the Critique of Pure Reason, namely, that existence is not a predicate’ (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

Rare. OCLC list one copy only in North America at University Toronto, and two copies in the UK at BL and Trinity College, Cambridge.

Adickes, 33; Warda, 23.