Kant and Hegel: how an objection becomes proof

Resumo

 In many circumstances the attacks of detractors have played a greater role in fostering the vitality of the ontological
proof than the strenuous defence of its supporters. What is most surprising, however, is that that certain critiques have unwittingly
become arguments containing an original reformulation of the ontological proof. The singular phenomenon of the trasformation
of an objection into proof is precisely what we intend to consider in this essay, tracing a path that leads from Kant, the author of
the objection on which we will focus most, to Hegel.