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    If God does not exist, there is no basis for an obligatio... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→We have no obligation to achieve the Kantian highest good, but only to work towards the closest achievable approximation of it.

    If God does not exist, there is no basis for an obligation to realize perfect virtue.

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    One problem with this argument is that many will deny that morality requires us to seek the highest good in Kant’s sense. Even if the Kantian highest good seems reasonable as an ideal, some will object that we have no obligation to achieve such a state, but merely to work towards realizing the closest approximation to such a state that is possible (See Adams 1987, 152). Without divine assistance, perhaps perfect virtue is unachievable, but in that case we cannot be obliged to realize such a stat

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