Here’s a typical “hot take” on the categorical imperative from the most pro-Kantian of the three, Fichte: “This proposition is purely heuristic: I can very well and very easily employ it as a test…. It is however by no means constitutive. It is by no means a principle, but only an inference from a true principle [the original principle of morality as such in human nature which we do not experience as a proposition]. Who is it that judges whether something [accords with the ci]? I myself. And according to what principles?”

Fichte, Schelling and Hegel all end up moving closer to traditional virtue ethics and away from the CI, in different ways, and that’s a vast oversimplification.

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>so just anecdotally I have plenty of reason to believe in God through practice.
A Kantian is born. Praise Reason.