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    Supports→The existence of God is required to resolve the dualism of practical reason, such that acting morally and pursuing one's own happiness ultimately coincide.

    Only if there is a God can we hope that those who act morally will in the long run also advance their own happiness and well-being.

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    Another way of interpreting Kant’s argument puts more stress on the connection between an individual’s desire for happiness and the obligation to do what is morally right. Morality requires me to sacrifice my personal happiness if that is necessary to do what is right. Yet it is a psychological fact that humans necessarily desire their own happiness. In such a state it looks as if human moral agents will be torn by what Henry Sidgwick called the “dualism of the practical reason” (1884, 401). Rea

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