Immanuel Kant, in his "Religion Within the Limits of
Reason Alone", observes that "we create a God for ourselves". This essay
will argue that, in this passage as in "Religion" as a whole, Kant is attempting to find a justification for
religious thought and moral behaviour, not in revelation, but in
reason. Reinforced by reason, a universal human morality may therefore be agreed upon which is not bound by the limits of culture or individual religious theology.