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    It is not the case that The practical argument for God's existence is decisive

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    • 1.Kant's own critical framework prohibits constitutive metaphysical claims from practical reason, limiting postulates to regulative use only.
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    • 2.A regulative postulate that God exists for moral coherence does not license the further claim that God actually exists as a decisive theoretical matter.
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    • 3.The practical argument therefore cannot be 'decisive' without collapsing the very theoretical/practical distinction Kant invokes to save it.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Moral obligation can be grounded in contractualist or constructivist frameworks—Rawls, Korsgaard—without any theological postulate.
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    • 2.If alternative secular groundings of moral rationality are coherent, the argument's first premise that God is *required* fails by modus tollens.
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    • 1.Belief in God is required as a postulate of practical reason to make rational sense of moral obligation
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    • 2.The theoretical arguments for God's existence fail
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    • 3.Practical reason can ground belief where theoretical reason cannot
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