To the extent that we are free we are like God, who has no need of an idea of a God over Godself or of an incentive other than the moral law itself. But to the extent that we are also natural beings, we desire our own happiness in everything else that we desire, and we need the practical postulate of God to bring that happiness together with morality.


p. 165 - Ethics and Religion: Two Kantian Arguments (2011)

John E. Hare Quotes

To the extent that we are free we are like God, who has no need of an idea of a God over Godself or of an incentive other than the moral law itself....

To the extent that we are free we are like God, who has no need of an idea of a God over Godself or of an incentive other than the moral law itself....

To the extent that we are free we are like God, who has no need of an idea of a God over Godself or of an incentive other than the moral law itself....

To the extent that we are free we are like God, who has no need of an idea of a God over Godself or of an incentive other than the moral law itself....