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Often appears with: providence and divine governance · kingdom of god · justice as a virtue · infinite moral progress · hope of happiness beyond this life · holiness and virtue · fate, destiny, and necessity

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The Critique of Practical Reason secondary

Immanuel Kant · 1788
BOOK*1|CHAPTER*1 > CHAPTER II. Of the Dialectic of Pure Reason in defining the (16/40)

Kant claims Christianity uniquely satisfies practical reason by uniting the moral law’s holiness with hope for happiness in an endless duration, forming the kingdom of God as harmony between nature and morality.

with one's own personal worth, thus including it in the consciousness of being morally minded, in which they Might have been sufficiently refuted by the voice of their own nature. The doctrine of Christianity, * even if we do not yet consider it as a religious doctrine, gives, touching this point, a conception of the summum bonum (the kingdom of God), which alone satisfies the strictest demand of practical reason. T…