Kahn, Samuel2017-06-022017-06-022015Kahn, Samuel. "Is the Final Chapter of the Metaphysics of morals also the Final Chapter of the Practical Postulates?" American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 89, no. 2 (2015): 309-332. DOI: 10.5840/acpq201531750https://hdl.handle.net/1805/12810Author Posting of a preprint © American Catholic Philosophical Association, 2016. This article is posted here for personal use, not for redistribution. The article was published in American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 89, Issue 02, Spring 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/acpq201531750In this paper I trace the arc of Kant’s critical stance on the belief in God, beginning with the Critique of Pure Reason (1781) and culminating in the final chapter of the Metaphysics of Morals (1797). I argue that toward the end of his life, Kant changed his views on two important topics. First, despite his stinging criticism of it in the Critique of Pure Reason, by the time of the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant seems to endorse the physico-theological argument. Second, some time around the publication of the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant seems to move away from the argument for the practical postulatesen-USAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United StatesKantphysico-theological argumentmetaphysicspractical postulatesArticle10.5840/acpq201531750