Supreme will attributes

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Often appears with: transcendental theology · the nature and attributes of God · teleological unity of nature · reason and the intellect · physico-theology · moral theology · justice as a virtue

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The Critique of Pure Reason primary

Immanuel Kant · 1781–1787
SECTION I. OF SPACE > Section II. Of the Ideal of the Summum Bonum as a Determining Ground of the Ultimate End of Pure Reason (5/6)

Kant develops a moral theology: moral unity requires a single omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, eternal supreme will, linking moral order to teleological unity and turning natural investigation into physico-theology and transcendental theology.

cause, founds, maintains, and fulfils the universal order of things, with the most perfect teleological harmony, however much this order may be hidden from us in the world of sense. This moral theology has the peculiar advantage, in contrast with speculative theology, of leading inevitably to the conception of a sole, perfect, and rational First Cause, whereof speculative theology does not give us any indication on …