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    It is not the case that 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.

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    • 1.The postulate of God resolves the dualism only eschatologically, meaning moral agents must act now on a hoped-for future alignment they have no rational guarantee will obtain.
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    • 2.Schopenhauer argued that grounding moral motivation in divine reward corrupts the purity of moral action by smuggling self-interest back into the very act meant to transcend it.
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    • 3.A morality that requires theological guarantees of ultimate self-benefit fails on its own terms, since genuine moral action must be motivationally independent of consequences to the agent.
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    • 1.Kant's 'dualism of practical reason' presupposes that moral worth requires sacrificing happiness, but Aristotelian eudaimonism holds that virtuous activity just is the fullest expression of human flourishing.
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    • 2.If virtue and happiness are constitutively unified in the good human life, as Aristotle argues in the Nicomachean Ethics, no theological resolution of their tension is needed because the tension itself is illusory.
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    • 1.Morality requires humans to sacrifice their personal happiness when duty demands it.
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    • 2.It is a psychological fact that humans necessarily desire their own happiness.
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    • 3.Reason therefore both requires humans to seek their own happiness and to sacrifice it, creating an irresolvable tension.
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