On God — Kant

: Humans have a moral duty to seek the "Highest Good"—a world where happiness is perfectly proportioned to virtue.

: He claimed we cannot apply the law of cause and effect (which works for physical things) to a "First Cause" outside of time and space.

Kant famously dismantled the three traditional "speculative" arguments for God's existence: Kant on God

: While he respected this argument, he believed it could at best prove a "world-architect," not an infinite, all-powerful Creator. The "Moral Argument" (God as a Postulate)

Kant was critical of traditional religious practices. He believed: Kant's Philosophy of Religion : Humans have a moral duty to seek

: Since we cannot ensure this balance on our own (bad things happen to good people), we must assume there is a supreme, moral being (God) who can harmonize nature with morality in an afterlife. Moral Faith : For Kant, belief in God is not "knowledge" ( Wissencap W i s s e n ) but a "rational faith" ( Glaubecap G l a u b e

Immanuel Kant’s view on God is defined by his famous declaration in the Critique of Pure Reason : "". He argued that while we cannot prove God exists through logic or science, we must postulate God's existence to make sense of our moral lives. The Rejection of Traditional Proofs The "Moral Argument" (God as a Postulate) Kant

) that provides the motivation to keep acting morally even when the world seems unjust.