This article aims to justify the positive role in the empirical investigation of nature that Kant attributes to the idea of God in the Critique of Pure Reason. In particular, I propose to read the Transcendental Ideal section and the Appendix to the Transcendental Dialectic together to see whether they can reciprocally illuminate each other. I argue that it is only by looking at the transcendental deduction of the ideas of reason and the resulting analogical conception of God (which Kant provides in the Appendix) that a fully legitimate positive use of the idea of God can be vindicated.

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康德纯粹理性批判中的上帝观念与自然的经验考察

本文旨在证明康德在《纯粹理性批判》中赋予上帝观念在自然经验研究中的积极作用是正当的。特别是，我建议将先验理想部分和先验辩证法附录一起阅读，看看它们是否可以相互照亮。我认为，只有通过观察理性观念的先验演绎和由此产生的上帝的类比概念（康德在附录中提供），才能证明对上帝观念的完全合法的积极使用是正确的。