Ontotheology

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The term ontotheology (from ancient Greek ὄν on , participle to εἶναι einai “to be”, and theology ) was coined by Immanuel Kant , who understands it to be a form of transcendental theology that God does not understand by accessing experiences, but by means of transcendental concepts trying to think.

Martin Heidegger uses this term to describe traditional metaphysics with regard to its question of how it thinks the highest being . The thought that a generally higher being or essence - be it God, the substance in Spinoza , the absolute in Hegel or Schelling, or the monad in Leibniz - is necessary as a guarantee for the order of the world is called the ontotheological form of metaphysics .

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