Abstract Varying forms of ontological and methodological naturalism are among the most popular theses in contemporary philosophy. However, each these faces a different dilemma: is famously challenged by Hempel’s dilemma, while issues regarding its coherence. Some prominent naturalists (Elpidorou Dove 2018, Ney 2009, Rea 2002) have suggested to circumvent respective dilemmas reconceiving as an a...

Kant believes that the concepts of a just and compassionate God and the life beyond death spring from our rational need to unite happiness with virtue. But since Kant had banished happiness from any place in moral reasoning, his philosophy of religion have been deemed as not merely discontinuous with his ethics but radically opposed to it. This article tries to argue against this apparent incon...