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      • German philosopher Immanuel Kant devised an argument from morality based on practical reason. Kant argued that the goal of humanity is to achieve perfect happiness and virtue (the summum bonum) and believed that an afterlife must be assumed to exist in order for this to be possible, and that God must be assumed to exist to provide this.
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  2. – Therefore morality postulates the existence of God. – Kant calls this postulation of God a ‘necessary hypothesis’. – It is not knowledge, but assumption. Knowledge requires that understanding be combined with perception – a metaphysical being cannot be perceived by definition.

  3. May 20, 2010 · Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) is the central figure in modern philosophy. He synthesized early modern rationalism and empiricism, set the terms for much of nineteenth and twentieth century philosophy, and continues to exercise a significant influence today in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, and other fields.

  4. Jun 12, 2014 · Practical Moral Arguments for Belief in God. As already noted, the most famous and perhaps most influential version of a moral argument for belief in God is found in Immanuel Kant (1788). Kant himself insisted that his argument was not a theoretical argument, but an argument grounded in practical reason.

    • Kant and Religion. This article does not present a full biography of Kant. A more general account of his life can be found in the article Kant’s Aesthetics.
    • God in Some Pre-critical Writings. Kant’s pre-critical writings are those that precede his Inaugural Dissertation of 1770, which marked his assumption of the chair in logic and metaphysics at the university.
    • Each Critique as Pivotal. The heart of Kant’s philosophical system is the triad of books constituting his great critiques: his Critique of Pure Reason, published in 1781 (the A edition), with a significantly revised second edition appearing in 1787 (the B edition); his Critique of Practical Reason, published in 1788; and his Critique of Judgment, published in 1790.
    • The Prolegomena and Kant’s Lectures. a. The Prolegomena. Most—but not all—of the religious epistemology that is of note in Kant’s Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics is already contained in his more philosophically impressive first Critique and will not be repeated here.
  5. Immanuel Kant. At the foundation of Kants system is the doctrine of “transcendental idealism,” which emphasizes a distinction between what we can experience (the natural, observable world) and what we cannot (“supersensible” objects such as God and the soul). Kant argued that we can only have knowledge of things we can experience.

  6. Feb 23, 2004 · Kants Moral Philosophy. First published Mon Feb 23, 2004; substantive revision Fri Jan 21, 2022. Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) argued that the supreme principle of morality is a principle of practical rationality that he dubbed the “Categorical Imperative” (CI).

  7. The Transcendental Argument for the existence of God (TAG) is a transcendental argument that attempts to prove the existence of God, i. e. it attempts to prove the necessary conditions for the possibility of something (e. g. knowledge) contradict with the proposition that God does not exist. [1]

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