What is a "Practical Postulate"?

Question

What is that? Immanuel Kant is kicking my ***. Please provide two examples. I'm trying to study for a test tomorrow and no one seems to know what the h**l a "Practical Postulate" is.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Kant's Practical Postulate is a moral argument that one should believe in God in order to live a moral life.

It is not meant to demonstrate to the sceptic that there is a God, but that he must adopt the assumption of this proposition as a maxim of his practical reason, if he wishes to think in a manner consistent with morality.

As a practical 'presupposition' of our moral activity, it 'cannot be brought to

a higher degree of certainty than the acknowledgement that it is the most

reasonable opinion for us men' [CPrR 142].  Accordingly, Kant describes it as a 'doctrinal belief' [CPR 853], which means it is, 'from an objective perspective, an expression of modesty, and yet at the same time, from a subjective perspective, an expression of the firmness of our confidence' [855].  For one who accepts this practical postulate and decides to believe in

God must resolve within himself 'not [to] give up this belief'

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Answer 3

Perfected Reason must include a transcendent escape hatch to permit practical life.  Perfectly logical thinking is in some way incompatible with practical self-control, so the moment Reason comes to fulfilment, it must do so by including immediately, an escape hatch, a kind of release from "the law" of perfect rationality.  

example;

you claim that religion is far simpler than everyone assumes, therefore you should address the main thing which appears to contradict that emphasis on simplicity.