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    Therefore the postulate of God smuggles a consequentialis... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Belief in God is a rational postulate required by practical reason

    Therefore the postulate of God smuggles a consequentialist condition into a deontological framework, undermining the autonomy of morality Kant himself defends.

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    • 1.Kant grounds duty in pure reason alone; invoking God's commands as moral motivation reintroduces heteronomous incentives external to reason.
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    • 2.If God's existence ensures moral consequences (reward/punishment), agents obey for hoped outcomes rather than duty itself, violating autonomy.
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    • 3.Kant explicitly rejected theological morality; his postulate of God in Critique of Practical Reason aims at happiness, not grounding duty.
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    • 1.Kant's postulate serves only to reconcile virtue with happiness, not to ground moral law itself, which remains purely deontological in origin.
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    • 2.God's existence in Kant's system guarantees coherence between duty and inclination without *causing* dutiful action—agents still act from duty alone.
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    • 3.The critique conflates psychological motivation with logical justification; duty needs no consequentialist prop to remain autonomous.
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