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    It is not the case that We ought to postulate God.

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    Reasons For

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    • 1.The moral demand that virtue be rewarded does not entail that reality has the structure necessary to satisfy that demand.
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    • 2.Kant's own framework distinguishes between what practical reason demands and what we are metaphysically licensed to assert as actual.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Schopenhauer argued that the postulation of God to align happiness with virtue smuggles in a eudaimonistic motive incompatible with genuinely moral action.
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    • 2.If moral worthiness requires happiness as its completion, then moral agents are ultimately acting for the sake of their own felicity, undermining the categorical nature of the moral law.
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    Reasons Against

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    • Only by postulating God is it possible that in the end happiness should be enjoyed by persons in proportion to their moral worthiness.
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