physico-theological

The physico-theological and the cosmological arguments can both be shown to rest upon the ontological argument and thus share its fatal defect.

Kant's Philosophy of Religion Rossi, Philip 2009

The cosmological and the physico-theological arguments fall under the second heading.

Kant's Philosophy of Religion Rossi, Philip 2009

Kant did not think any rationalistic proofs for the existence of God actually worked, though, at least before the mauling it received at the hands of Hume, he considered the physico-theological argument the best available.

Kant and Leibniz Wilson, Catherine 2008

Whereas the Ontological argument moves from the concept of the ens realissimum to the claim that such a being exists necessarily, the Cosmological and physico-theological arguments move from some necessary being to the conclusion that such a being must be the ens realissimum.

Kant's Critique of Metaphysics Grier, Michelle 2007

Kant identifies three traditional arguments, the ontological, the cosmological, and the physico-theological (the argument from design).

Kant's Critique of Metaphysics Grier, Michelle 2007

They refuted and ridiculed the physico-theological systems of Burnet, Whiston, and Woodward; while

On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

One may be, that on the continent in general there is a smaller number of those who, without being specialists in both realms, unite active religious interest and reasoning with a thorough study of those naturo-historical questions, while in Great Britain physico-theological studies have been for generations traditional and the object of interest for the majority of educated men.

The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Rudolf Schmid

In the last days of his life the indefatigable veteran wrote two Scriptural works: XXX, a physico-theological explanation of the six days of creation (Augsburg, 1829, 16 pp., 8°) and a voluminous "Commentarius literalis in Genesim" (Salzbach, 1835, 796 pp. 8°).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

And the physico-theological argument from design, while it may prove the existence of an intelligent designer, cannot establish the existence of a Supreme Being.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

The physico-theological or teleological argument is what is often styled the argument from design.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics Various 1910