ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author examines Immanuel Kant’s arguments for rational faith. For Kant, to see oneself as bound by morality, and to see the world in terms of morally significant features is to see oneself as a subject that can deserve happiness or suffering in virtue of its actions. In the practical case, the conditioned is happiness, which is meant to include all non-moral criteria of practical reasoning. With regard to intensional states, Kant’s vocabulary privileges cognitive and conative attitudes, being focused on either belief and knowledge, or intention and value. Kant’s thought may be that in order for reason to directly motivate, it must take the form of an imperative, of something in the logical form of a command. Kant certainly recognizes the coherence of a necessarily unattainable ideal when he considers theoretical reasoning.
