Kant's Moral argument

The moral argument only ‘works’ in the framework of practical reason. Critically discuss the meaning and implications of this claim. Immanuel Kant was instrumental in demolishing the traditional philosophical arguments for God’s existence. In Critique of Pure Reason (1781) ,his first major work, this is exactly what he did. Kant developed his own argument for God’s existence a few years later in his second major work The Critique of Practical Reason (1788). He later published …

…reciprocally influence them) or into idolatry (a superstitious belief that we can please the Supreme Being by other means than a moral sentiment).” (Kant, Critique of Judgement, Hafner Press; 1951). This is exactly what Kant set out to do and I think in some ways has achieved. Although Kant’s philosophy is sometimes difficult to follow, it does provide a fairly legitimate theory of how an ethical system and thus a belief in God can work.