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His lengthy discussion of "the only possible ground for a demonstration of the existence of God" (1763), culminating in the conclusion that "it is certainly necessary that one convince oneself of the existence of God, but [that] it is not equally necessary that one demonstrate it,"23 together with his concern with the method of metaphysics in the second and third Meditations of the Untersuchung of 1764, is evidence of this. 24 In addition, Kant felt that "the first grounds of morality are in their present condition not capable of all required evidence.
Properly speaking, they are appearances (not ideas) of things. But, although they do not express the internal and absolute quality of objects, they do give us true knowledge. As perceptions, they testify to the presence of an object which causes them and thus contradict idealism. The truth of perceptual judgments, on the other hand, consists in agreement with the perceived qualities, and in this sense genuine knowledge is also possible. 42 The realism which Kant affirms here is reaffirmed in the Critique of Pure Reason.
But, as to the question of the nature of this content, Kant's position shifts. , the material content) is feeling. " And, since it is quite certain that we experience many simple feelings of the good, there occur many similarly irreducible representations of it. Hence, says Kant, when "an action is represented directly as good, without being related in some hidden way to a certain other good ... "31 At this time Kant still believed that Hutcheson and others had made important contributions to ethics in terms of moral feelings, and he was sure that it had not as yet been settled whether the faculty of cognition alone or "feeling (as the ultimate ground of the faculty of desire)" actually provided a firm basis for morals.