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Kant's Moral Argument
Immanuel Kant
Kritik der praktischen Vernunft (Critique of Practical Reason)
ConjecturalConcludes what we are warranted in believing or doing.
- Argument form
- Modus ponens (practical postulate: P3 is the universal, P2 instantiates it)
- Concludes to
- Belief obligatory (morally necessary to assume an intelligent cause of nature apportioning happiness to virtue)
- Premise ground
- Normative (it is morally necessary to assume whatever morality's commanded end requires)
- Modal strength
- None (warrant for belief)
- What it licenses
- Period
- Eighteenth Century (1788)
- Tradition
- Kantian (critical)
Further reading
- Source text, public domain
Kritik der praktischen Vernunftkritikderpraktis00kantuoft.pdf - A scholarly account
Read an exposition of the argument - A principal objection
Read the objection in full
This formulation is ours, composed from the primary source and compressed to fit the card; the argument admits of other statements. Objections have been made to every argument in the deck; where one is linked above, it is chosen by us, not written by us.
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