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    It is not the case that We must postulate a supreme cause of nature having a causality in keeping with the moral disposition

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    • 1.Moral obligation requires only that we act toward an end, not that we guarantee its cosmic realization through postulated beings.
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    • 2.Schopenhauer argues that grounding ethics in consequences like happiness corrupts its purity; duty is binding regardless of outcome.
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    • 3.A morality that requires postulating God to remain coherent is thereby shown to be insufficiently self-grounding as a practical system.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.The inference from 'X must be possible' to 'a divine cause of X must exist' commits the fallacy of treating logical possibility as requiring ontological guarantors.
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    • 2.Hume established that causal reasoning from natural order to a morally characterized deity involves an illicit anthropomorphic projection beyond available evidence.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Morality imposes an end upon us: realizing the highest good (greatest happiness consistent with greatest virtue)
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    • 2.We must believe the realization of any morally imposed end to be possible
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    • 3.The highest good requires a supreme cause of nature aligned with morality in order to be possible
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